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published in anthology, Images of
Women, 2006,
Arrowhead
Press in assoc. with Second Light;
featured
on CD collection, Something about a Woman.
There's Something About
a Woman Swallowing Flames
She
kicks her head back: if you’re quick
you
spot the hunted fox in her eyes
before
it goes to ground. She's diamond tonight
or
something decked out as diamond. She spins
so
fast you’re trapped in her sleight of hand,
dazzles
fire and ice in a fever of smiles.
You
don’t think she can do this, her skin is paper-thin
and
her hair crackles with static. Her torches hurl
through
the air, juggle saffron, electric blue, flame.
Colours
skelter up and down the sharp tongues. Spit.
Curse.
Bite at the ceiling, the oh so flammable curtains.
A
flick of her wrists and the firesnakes
race
for her throat, home in on the blaze
under
her breastbone. Air catches its breath.
Light
fizzes from the copper hair, copper fingertips.
Your
eyes want to bolt for the door,
sidle
home but are held in check.
You
scent the quick musk of vixen.
She
fills the room.
Jennie Osborne
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poetry favourites:
Moor
Poets
Oversteps
Books
and in
the
shop
...
collection
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"How to be Naked",
Oversteps Books
CD:
"Something
about a Woman"
anthologies:
"Images
of Women",
Arrowhead Press
in assoc. with
Second
Light;
"Work",
Katabasis;
"Parents",
Enitharmon/Second Light;
"Poetry
on the Buses",
Green Books;
"Miracles
and Clockwork", Other Poetry
"Moor
Poets", Wylde Pub. & Moor Poets
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