James Coghill

James has had poems published in Amberflora, The Hythe, and Tentacular (among other places). His preoccupations include ecology, obscurity, and early modern poetry. By day, he works as a teacher at an SEMH school.

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from Piddock

juvenile

a

hermit for a /

(are you feeling

errant, my

braggart-whole

& deep-dish

living the /

(dream, novice

stepping up /

out & after all, a

scetis-proxy /

foray into

that you call /

burrowed down

in ‘hello

questing’

b

from your

drilled-out to a

(slow &

cloistered panic:

cist for our

(furled ~ interred, our

& alle these werkes

mysticke /

barely grazing

the bedrock’s

gouged &

humpback surface /

going foot-first in:

these raw

spaces

mantle

a

curl a

lip round curdle /

(lip my

long puck

of your

(herein conjured

mineral bold as

skewed & /

shambles round your

(stockade, prepper

stretched

quid

drumming a

surely /

(muscle gritted

parsed where

clamps

seistow a—

b

how about

coddled nouns

brinked

a fibre hold /

sarco-everything up in

trundle of

grasp mantle

preterite kiss where

affixes

before & inside

shell or

mirror-backing—

the strained cud /

congealed

architect

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