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| ***BIO*** Vikki Littlemore: I have recently had work published in The Glasgow Review, Poetry Monthly International and Melisma, and was the second runner up in the Birds on The Line featured poet competition. |
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| Teenagers in Love |
| by Vikki Littlemore |
| I chant superstitious rhymes
and stretch chest muscles; for you, watch teenagers in the sun, tangled arms and tongues at bus stops. I walk past; thirty-two. I watch as other girls with bigger breasts suck the wet lips of disposable men; the same white light in the sky, shining like something other than the moon. In the defragmented, opium flame and glaze of sun, in the silk-soft gilded green and bird song of warm and cool afternoon; gently softened skin exudes the absorbed heat of the day, skin; soft, lush as the watered grass, tender under the palm of him, whose palms are somewhere else, wandering over someone else’s skin with borrowed caresses, cupping undeserving shoulders, drinking the evening in ignorance. On benches or in the burning flare of back-gardens; next to hosepipes, trees. Tiny red spiders on thighs. And we, in garden chairs with pens blooming and fizzing with impotence and infernal futility cup the shoulders no-one will and wait. |
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| Oct. 2009 |
| 126 |