Month: November 2016
Thankyou To Kate Garrett of Picaroon Poetry
Immigrant Tongues by Paul Brookes
closed mouths
welcome occupation
of tongue by tongue
gypsy together
enrich each private space
breath ripens
restless unsettling in
make a home in us
shape our tongue
their tongue entwines
with ours
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Paul Brookes was in poetry performance group “Rats for Love” and is in their “Rats for Love: The Book” Bristol Broadsides, 1989. His first chapbook “The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley” by Dearne Community Arts, 1993. He has read his work on BBC Radio Bristol and had a creative writing workshop for sixth formers broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live. Recently published in Ekphrastic Review, Red Fez, The Bees Are Dead, The Beatnik Cowboy, Clear Poetry, and others.
A Poem Published In “I’m Not A Silent Poet”
My Dali
Mad One Eye And His Bird Brains by Paul Brookes — In Between Hangovers
Every dawn I send out black feathered bird brains my memory and thought to fetch news. I’ve gid them power of speech, and fret they’ll not come back one on these days, so I’ll sit here thoughtless and without memory. Our lass says, “Thas allus same once thas let thee birds go. Tha sits around […]
via Mad One Eye And His Bird Brains by Paul Brookes — In Between Hangovers
The Wombwell Rainbow 