Six Poems

 

by Jude Cowan

 

 

 

 

It was a terrible day

 

 

Freezing cold / Miles of rock / Then hail

 

Plasto-carbon man / Not dead / Waterproof

Battery

 

 

 

 

Pet Jewellery

 

 

Debonair Yorkshire terrier / Natty

 

Catwalk / Emerald

 

Clip / Bark of Experience

 

 

 

 

Strongmen

 

 

Iced lollies / Rock music

 

Enormous thighs / Inalienable parts

 

Lying cannon / Conflict resonates

 

Aplomb / Gone

 

 

 

 

Bridge Wedding

 

 

Every ring has a safety harness

 

 

 

 

Artist

 

 

Rahamin

Motionless

Flickers

 

Paints

Eyes

Software

 

Tranquil

Emotions

Paralysed

 

 

 

 

Fix the Space Toilet

 

 

Who do you think I am?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jude Cowan is a writer, artist and composer who lives in London.  She works as an archivist for Reuters Television.  Her first collection of poetry, For the Messengers, was published by Donut Press in 2011.  Her second, The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge, will be published by Dark Windows Press in 2013.  She makes musical improvisations on Reuters stories and these are available on the Parisian based netlabel, Three Legs Duck.  Jude Cowan is online at Judecowan.tumblr.com and at judecowan.net.