Isabel Rogers’ first poetry collection, Don’t Ask, came out in 2017 with Eyewear Publishing. Her work has appeared in various magazines including Poetry, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar and Mslexia, and has also been widely anthologised. She won the 2014 Cardiff International Poetry Competition, and collaborates regularly with the composer Ian Stephens.
Flying south
I felt a soft distortion in the sky
an unlocatable thrumming; heard the call
for strength, trust and a true compass,
the locked vector in each head
wearing a groove across the world
like iron to the poles.
Time’s bow-wave rippled and shrank to black
leaving me stretching – heavy and unfeathered –
solid human, anchored in a new season.
Isabel Rogers
