Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016

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a Scottish poet based in the East Neuk of Fife. He divides his time between his own writing and developing creative writing courses for vulnerable people in a variety of settings.

It is a sunny day. There are blue balloons

tied to the silver railings, and everyone is here,

dressed in their Sunday best. They are not.

It is a sunny day. There are blue balloons

tied to the silver railings, and everyone is here,

dressed in t

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Gordon Meade:

a Scottish poet based in the East Neuk of Fife. He divides his time between his own writing and developing creative writing courses for vulnerable people in a variety of settings.

Publish date: 18.09.2019

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Anna Adamowicz:

was born in 1993. She is the author of “Wątpia” [Doubt], which was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize and took third place in the “Browar za debiut” poll. She lives in Wrocław, where she does diagnostic work in a laboratory.

to preserve you in verse, sea turtle
ingesting plastic bags instead of jellyfish,
to plop you in this poem like a cradle or a tomb
is all I can do, forgive me, I can’t fetch
you a school of moon jellies stuttering like hearts,
I can’t teach you to tell polymer from mesoglea,
I won’t give up single-use needles,
I can’t dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,
I won’t sweep humans from every continent
’cause who’d then preserve you in verse, turtle bro

Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016

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