Cruise Ship
At the lip of the sea,
a fat white body
is snagged on capstone,
flank slick with algae.
A boy prods
its belly with a stick,
and swears
he sees it flinch.
Orlando
white hallway doors pulled to
at the other end
a small blue pane
suitcases
grey speckled pool deck
in desperate want of loungers
but the water is a black hole
and the filter comes alive
at night
chattering
Orange World World Showcase Lighthouse Sculpture Honours
Tot Killed by Gator
at Walt Disney World
we the people
Pulse
overhead
the traffic lights
swing
a thin black cord
around their necks
TEES $1.99
where Spiderman
spins a sign for Subway
sweat soaking
through his morphsuit
a local woman tallies cents in the tollbooth
the desk fan tips its head in her direction
shell
of an armadillo
rocking
on the other side
planes taxi
images cannot hold
themselves together
the smoking deck is a wire pen
scattered nubs infertile seeds
the ground could not swallow
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Lauren Terry is an AHRC / Midlands4Cities researcher at Nottingham Trent University. Lauren's critical-creative PhD thesis explores the connections between (neuro)psychoanalysis, modernist poetic language, and material objects. She is published by Nottingham presses, Launderette Books and Mud Press. Her poems will appear in the forthcoming issue of The Molly Bloom.
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