Sundews by Stephen Bone

  

 

 

Stephen Bone’s work has appeared in various journals in the U.K. and U.S. and in numerous anthologies.

His first collection In the Cinema (Playdead Press) was published in 2014 and a pamphlet Plainsong (Indigo Dreams) was published in 2018.

Sundews


 

Like something

you might find encased

in a paperweight’s glass

 

or snorkel over,

shimmering angel fish

in tow.

 

Ruby slippers, Red Ink,

Pale Rainbow, each name

an exact fit

 

for these wetland lovers,

hungry

for a luckless gnat

or damselfly;

 

each primed leaf

sprouting quills

tipped with a glittery deceit,

a viscous hell

 

disguised as a dewy heaven.

 

Stephen Bone

‘Sundews’ was previously published in Clear Poetry and Plainsong (Indigo Dreams 2018)

 

 

 

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