she put her finger to my lips
said
this –
this dip here
this is from when they tell you to keep quiet
the split second before you fall to earth
flop out of a scarlet canal
scream yourself into the world
this is where that being
that Being
kisses
presses their finger
says
‘forget me’
Elizabeth Train-Brown, a circus performer and award-winning journalist, studies Creative Writing at Lancaster University. She is the Marketing Director for MPN Magazine and Poetry & Fiction Editor for Flash Literary Journal. She won the 2020 Literary Lancashire Award and has been shortlisted in competitions by Creative Writing Ink, Voices, and Beyond Borders Scotland. Her work has appeared in Planet in Peril (Fly on the Wall Press, 2019), The Future of Text (Future Text Publishing, 2020), Allegro, Tastzine, Qutub Minar Review, Cake Journal, SKYE Magazine, SCAN, Horla Horror, Wax Poetry & Art, and Crossways. www.bethtrainbrown.journoportfolio.com