T. Soule
- Pamenar Press
- Jul 6
- 1 min read
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.
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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