Fragile Bodies
Victoria Bennett
'These remarkable poems achieve a
restrained lyric intensity,
maintaining a delicate balance
between the sadness of the body and
its tenderly recuperative
eroticism.'
Maurice Riordan
June 2004 32pp
ISBN 0 9536989 4 7
£5.00
Extract
Poem 5
Why is it so hard to write this?
Your syrup skin
against the midnight jasmine.
How my body screams for you.
Poem 16
They say:
the structure is growing somewhere else.
They tell me:
the womb is empty.
I look, straining to see
the pinprick heart
that will tell me
you have stayed.
There is nothing;
only space
and water
and longing.
