Poem
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Love Minus Love
Love Minus Love
Love Minus Love
can still be love if youhold it up to the light
at the exact right angle –
diamonds winking off its
underside same yellow as
the fox dead and mine in
the one breath I denied
myself staring down its
dragged open chest its
stomach a smirk dumped
in the recycling bin
Clapham road side I go
too far often since first I
saw you whip your fringe
on the dance floor I’m
finding tumours in each
place I put my finger I’m
picking them out my
minestrone soup my
lentil and tomato stew
before I put spoonfuls of
it in my body I’m crying
at the speed of cars
nowadays into every
hopeless piece of myself
– O Sarah what it takes
to stay alive I can’t die
well if you’re dancing
© 2019, Wayne Holloway-Smith
Wayne Holloway-Smith
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, )
Wayne Holloway-Smith’s poetry is curious in both senses. It is eccentric and intriguing but it is also, like a good conversationalist, interested and engaged. At once sincere and off-beat, he possesses what Mark Waldron has called “a peculiar openness […] a certain unguarded gentleness”. Holloway-Smith deals in distinctive ways with difficult issues, including gender, class and mental health, i...
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Love Minus Love
can still be love if youhold it up to the light
at the exact right angle –
diamonds winking off its
underside same yellow as
the fox dead and mine in
the one breath I denied
myself staring down its
dragged open chest its
stomach a smirk dumped
in the recycling bin
Clapham road side I go
too far often since first I
saw you whip your fringe
on the dance floor I’m
finding tumours in each
place I put my finger I’m
picking them out my
minestrone soup my
lentil and tomato stew
before I put spoonfuls of
it in my body I’m crying
at the speed of cars
nowadays into every
hopeless piece of myself
– O Sarah what it takes
to stay alive I can’t die
well if you’re dancing
Love Minus Love
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