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Carl lets himself in. One lobster pot has a hole, the other
holds a brown crab, toes robotic & menacing. The limpets
resist the element of surprise. Carl is offered a cup of tea,
but no one makes it. The ginger cat offers her butter belly
by the cornflowers. The black cat is not as flirtatious. Carl
comes back to collect his barbecued pollack. It rains &
then it stops raining. The seal sits on top of the rocks like
a blubbery banana. Carl keeps a secret chair deep in the
corn field. There are more birds than words for their paper
wings. The evening sun imposes stretchy shadows behind
all its subjects. The local pub is called The Sandpiper, but
Carl says he only knows a poem when it rhymes.
Yessica Klein (she/her) is a Brazilian artist and writer. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University (UK), and her writing and artwork have been featured in Banshee Lit, The Moth, Wet Grain Poetry, 3:AM, Magnum Photos, The Lighthouse Review, and more. She was shortlisted for the 2023 White Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize. Yessica was also highly commended at Amibt's 2022 Poetry Competition, 'Magick', and accepted into the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre's 2023 summer school in Belfast, UK. She runs a newsletter called That Poetry Thing, focusing on writers' desks and creative habits, and she's also working on her first novel.
