SEVEN VOICES
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  • Contributors
    • TT19 >
      • Delphine Chalmers
      • Kate Weir
      • Natalie Perman
      • Kwan Q Li
      • Alex Beukers
      • George Wilson
    • MT18 >
      • Catherine Cibulskis
      • Bethan James
      • Rose Morley
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      • Jonny Budd
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      • Clara Atkinson
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      • Billy Lucas
      • Jessie Palmer
      • Anjelica Smerin
      • Emily Wigoder
    • TT17 >
      • Harri Adams
      • Julieta Caldas
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      • Anietie Ekanem
      • Bea Grant
      • AS
      • Annabel Sim
    • HT17 >
      • Ed Maclean
      • Georgina Lloyd-Owen
      • Surya Bowyer
      • David Carey
      • Robert Jackson
      • Minying Huang
      • Jessica Ockenden
    • MT16 >
      • Charles Pidgeon
      • Adham Smart
      • Rebecca Thornton
      • Thomas Hornigold
      • Annie Hayter
      • Adam Milner
      • Thomas Lawrence
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      • Thea Keller
      • Rebecca Took
      • Dominic Leonard
      • Anna Manning
      • Ben Ray
      • Harry Baker
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      • Catriona Bolt
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      • Rebecca Marks
      • Ed Gould
      • Honor Vincent
      • Pierre Antoine Zahnd
      • Lindsay Tocik
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      • Alexander Shaw
      • Lucy Byford
      • Emma Lister
      • JK
      • Kat Lewis
      • Maria Shepard
      • Adam Turner
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      • Nasim Asl
      • Charlotte Pence
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      • Ariel Fresh
      • James P Mannion
      • GL
      • I H-M
      • James Mooney
      • Tom Pease
      • Shivani Kochhar
  • Seven Voices
    • TT19 >
      • 1: mottle
      • 2: foam
      • 3: cinders
      • 4: milky
      • 5: dew
      • 6: grounding
      • 7: syrup
    • MT18 >
      • 1: ephemera
      • 2: alcove
      • 3: harem
      • 4: off-kilter
      • 5: stillborn
      • 6: embrace
      • 7: bloom
    • TT18 >
      • 1: percolate
      • 2: limerence
      • 3: wonky
      • 4: diaphanous
      • 5: hiraeth
      • 6: epoch
      • 7: epiphany
    • HT18 >
      • 1: scintillate
      • 2: periphery
      • 3: azure
      • 4: architect
      • 5: limbs
      • 6: ethereal
      • 7: opaque
    • TT17 >
      • 1: act
      • 2: wish
      • 3: fall
      • 4: cry
      • 5: restraint
      • 6: choice
      • 7: consequences
    • HT17 >
      • 1: truth
      • 2: digital
      • 3: horizon
      • 4: sharp
      • 5: luck
      • 6: savage
      • 7: uprising
    • MT16 >
      • 1: shelter
      • 2: morning
      • 3: colossus
      • 4: conceal
      • 5: curiosity
      • 6: recursion
      • 7: spirit
    • TT16 >
      • 1: coincidence
      • 2: details
      • 3: release
      • 4: we
      • 5: spiral
      • 6: dream
      • 7: endings
    • HT16 >
      • 1: evolve
      • 2: doubt
      • 3: memory
      • 4: &
      • 5: physical
      • 6: light
      • 7: permanence
    • MT15 >
      • 1: eclipse
      • 2: submersion
      • 3: collect
      • 4: voyage
      • 5: conflict
      • 6: portal
      • 7: map
    • TT15 >
      • 1: partial
      • 2: suspension
      • 3: £
      • 4: downstairs
      • 5: silence
      • 6: orbit
      • 7: final
    • HT15 >
      • 1: fantasise
      • 2: terror
      • 3: an awkward encounter
      • 4: in between
      • 5: wheel of fortune
      • 6: elemental
      • 7: races
  • Contact

5: Jessica Ockenden

20/2/2017

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​Lady, your bottom lip was improbably full
A moon between my teeth.
In my surprise I bit down harder than I meant to
And forced something from you
Like a sigh, like a moan, like a drop of blood.
 
Luck never stays the night.
She came between my sheets and didn’t return the favour.
 
I rolled straight sixes for six whole months and then (forgive me) my luck ran out.
I still see her around, though: a green-eyed fishmonger, a beautiful boy of seven, a crooked-tailed cat.
 
Long ago, when you were a moon-lipped lady
I tasted your bite-marks on my tongue. 
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5: Ed Maclean

20/2/2017

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5: Surya Bowyer

20/2/2017

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I start with the couplets
 
[Sonnet line #1 here - A]
[Sonnet line #1 here - B]
[Sonnet line #1 here - A]
[Sonnet line #1 here - B]
[Sonnet line #1 here - C]
[Sonnet line #1 here - D]
[Sonnet line #1 here - C]
[Sonnet line #1 here - D]
[Sonnet line #1 here - E]
[Sonnet line #1 here - F]
[Sonnet line #1 here - E]
[Sonnet line #1 here - F]
And this has been about the art of luck
[What rhymes with luck?] 
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5: David Carey

20/2/2017

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Schrodinger's Coin

Just for a moment,
before it falls down again,
it chooses both sides.
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5: Minying Huang

20/2/2017

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Picture
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5: Robert Jackson

20/2/2017

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​Shimmer
 
A shimmered death: it happens again
that we near-lose our lives to a taxi,
happening once then but then once
again as I try to recall. Not that I relive it–
not that I draw from footage–more like if
I were to try it shimmers, and holds
no shape, at the soft edge of my vision.
 
What was the sky? An unremitting orb
all blue, above me, above you, above
the whole, skinny world, which I'd wait
to see fill out for longer than this took.
I need to put words in your mouth
and mine to give the moment substance,
but I struggle. It shimmers. I lose attention
 
to what was said, if anything, and anyway,
who pulled who back? I can feel sure we were
silent after that, having had to see it used
in a second. The whole of our providence.
What was I but kind of shimmer, or so much
compressed air? How much binds me? And this
marginal gloss does little now, but shimmer.
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5: Georgina Lloyd-Owen

14/2/2017

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Luck
​
as it pokes at Hope
she opens doors
as it crashes through Regret
she chases rainbows
as it pierces my skin
she touches me
as it stretches my spine
she holds me
and as it burns my heart
she loves me
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