WHAT IT DOES TO YOU
The intrigue
the plain brown
envelope
the name misspelt
the address sketchily penned
with malevolence
by some unknown hand
Interesting
The opening
the folded white A4
the photocopied sheet
no prints but mine then (clever)
the six lines of loathing
magnified in black ink
Really?
The follow up
the police the questions
the who why what when
of the perpetrator
the forensics
the underlying threat
For
Fuck's sake
The aftermath
the wondering
the knowing that life
has altered just like that
the boiling anger at the risk
you suddenly need to take
just to put your name at the bottom
of a bloody poem
Lynda Tavakoli lives in County Down, Northern Ireland, where she facilitates an adult creative writing class and is a tutor for the Seamus Heaney Award for schools. A poet, novelist and freelance journalist, Lynda’s writings have been published in the UK, Ireland, the US and the Middle East, with Farsi and Spanish translations.
Lynda has been winner of both poetry and short story prizes in Listowel, The Westival International Poetry Prize and runner-up in The Blackwater International Poetry Competition and Roscommon Poetry Competition. Her poems have also appeared in The Irish Times, New Irish Writing.
She was recently a guest poet on RTE1 The Poetry Programme and her poem, ‘You’re Beautiful’, was featured in the ‘Words Lightly Spoken’ podcast.
Her debut poetry collection, ‘The Boiling Point for Jam’ is published by Arlen House and includes these three poems which concern the plight of refugees, a subject that has sadly been forgotten about recently.
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