Jack McKenna

Jack McKenna runs Pigeon Laughter, an experimental DIY press of poetry, photography, and hybrid works based in Manchester. In 2025, he launched scant, a print magazine featuring poetry and photography from global contributors, with an exhibition in Northern Quarter, Manchester. Jack is the author of Street Musicians (2024) and The Glass Delusion (2025).

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Zerkalo

A stranger approaches

through the windy field, you

explain softly, hand like smoke

on my back, what becomes

history seeps through walls,

burning rewrites, portraits

fade, children doze, never

in sequence, I could speak

about how grasshoppers

dance beside all that refuse

in the river, but the mirror

drops from the wall and you move

beyond our present ratio, only

you return, you remember,

once blades still, I could speak,

you say, unfamiliar footsteps

crunching broken glass.

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