Kate Lilley

Three poems

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(say) when

even the blossoming tips of fruit trees
weep when they taste the exceptional flavour

that last aperitif was too much
I’ll throw up the late harvest and ruin the season

are those two sisters now or were they ever
why don’t you just shut up and run the test

when I bite through the striped seam of the gel cap
it is bitter to the nth degree

say so

the figures are up across the board
the columns look sorry and feverish

if I memorize your reasons
I’ll have to love them

in the meantime let me buy your initials
and afterwards change the locks

when the gauge is lit it’s busier
so make a fire and evaporate

Anamorphosis

For starters it’s vexatious
a meritocracy

you might look like her
she might look like me

undulating brunette fixation
melting depositary

backyard wreck and salvage
mount of piety

These poems are from Kate’s new book of poems, Versary,
published by Salt Publications in Cambridge, England:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/1664/

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