T. Soule

T. Soule is a support worker and poet based in Glasgow. He has published with Wet Grain, Overground/Underground, Prole, and Propel Magazine. In 2020, he script-edited a short film critiquing the UK immigration system - ‘A Dream in a Mirage;’ and in 2023, he facilitated a children’s workshop on poetry and social justice with ReMode, Paisley. His poetry collection ‘Anglos’ - exploring complicity in the US’ colonisation of Turtle Island and the possibility of anti-colonial treason - was shortlisted for publication by Verve Press in their 2022 open call.

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ossuaries/lazarus 

after Dionne Brand

i.

it was simple. 

the places we met were the places they destroyed.

bankers untie no borders! banners pressed with paint hands, and

child pitched laughter evacuates like a trapped bat back

into their mouths. i climb

through decades of hostile thought, unread men’s 

magazines petal the ottoman, the cost of heating this georgian dump 

more than my rent. in this carcass, we share little, but the atlantic gravity 

of whiteness, the shrapnel of real estate 

driven into town shoulder. the wince you apportion. 

she says boundaries are not the opposite of love, that collapsing 

absolutely into another is a form of parasitism: only you can make you 

happy: other people will not live your body for you.

cis masculinity and capitalism share this, this syphoning of capacity from verbs, 

share this, this enclosure. when they left 

they took the air between us and gave it back to us as silence. 

it was simple.

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