Issue 10

poetry

“Richard”

by Ian Powell-Palm

“A Rainbow Comes” by Andrew Furey

Jaw hung

                        Like a port for invading

Ships

            the entrance Richard  first noticed

before demanding                  I soil a pair of boxers

                        for 300 dollars 

My Montanan detritus                       brutal enough

To banish back                                                the wounded landscape

Clasped between                    his legs                        palms              then absolved

In hotel rooms                        stolen                          from company funds

            His nephew                             watching Family Guy in the room over

As Richard                               begged for condoms choked

                        With my children’s flailing bodies

Because he knew                                I’d take the money that came

With splitting open                                         his gut

            Because what better way                   to capture a portrait

Of a man nailing                                  a younger man’s hide to his back

Than to touch him                              when he can’t possibly bear to touch himself

a thousand groins                               splintering in the dark             silver wounds

we will swallow like milk                                come morning

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Ian Powell-Palm is a writer, poet, and musician currently living in Belgrade, Montana. His work attempts to interrogate familial trauma, sexual identity, and the resurrection of the dead. You can find more of his work on Instagram at @Ipowellp16.

Andrew Furey was a photographer who focussed on the abstract. He was born in Ireland but spent much of his adult life in Nottingham where he could usually be found on riverbanks with a camera in hand. Tragically, he took his own life in Amsterdam on 12th of April 2022. A posthumous exhibition of his work is taking place in R Space Gallery, in his home city of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, from 12th through 18th of April 2023.


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