Poem
Kathryn Daszkiewicz
MOSQUITO IN AMBER
MOSQUITO IN AMBER
MOSQUITO IN AMBER
Only for connoisseursthe lapidarist said.
Kept in a drawer.
Not for display
with agate paperweights
bookends of amethyst.
Mosquitoes were your thing.
I wrote a cheque
took home that black speck
in its yellow mausoleum.
This is no mere decorative
imprint of skeleton in rock
but something trapped
as sticky resin dripped
down trunk and stem.
I imagine it on
your bookcase, next
to the Scandinavian condiments
in a studied absence of photographs.
© 2008, Kathryn Daszkiewicz
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Kathryn Daszkiewicz
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1961)
Kathryn Daszkiewicz was born and brought up in Gosforth, near Newcastle, in the north east of England and studied English at Leeds University. A former student of the creative writing MPhil at Glamorgan, she now lives in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she works as a teacher.
Kathryn did not start writing until her early thirties and since then has been widely published in magazines including The ...
Kathryn did not start writing until her early thirties and since then has been widely published in magazines including The ...
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MOSQUITO IN AMBER
Only for connoisseursthe lapidarist said.
Kept in a drawer.
Not for display
with agate paperweights
bookends of amethyst.
Mosquitoes were your thing.
I wrote a cheque
took home that black speck
in its yellow mausoleum.
This is no mere decorative
imprint of skeleton in rock
but something trapped
as sticky resin dripped
down trunk and stem.
I imagine it on
your bookcase, next
to the Scandinavian condiments
in a studied absence of photographs.
MOSQUITO IN AMBER
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