This week’s Featured Poet: Juliet M Wilson
Juliet M Wilson was born in Manchester, came to Edinburgh to study and apart from three months in Cornwall and two years in Malawi, she’s been here ever since. She works in the voluntary sector but has so far never found a job that she’s found entirely satisfying (which is probably good for her writing!). When not at work Juliet can be often found, with her partner, on riverside walks, watching foreign films or dancing in goth clubs… or by herself at art galleries and poetry readings (one poet is more than enough in any relationship!) Juliet blogs at Crafty Green Poet and at Over Forty Shades, and she edits the poetry blogmag Bolts of Silk. She also contributes poetry writing prompts to Read Write Poem.
Snow Blind
They are figures in a white landscape
on the edge of language like the snow-drawn
boundary that divides two mountain nations.
Between them is the space of never
and a bruise the shape of Nepal stains
her heart from all the pain.
In previous lives they have met and loved
but these and the parallel universe where they meet again
are things that this she, this he will never know.
So they remain alone in the freezing fog
of their unspoken words.
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February 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
wonderful poem and strangely cummingsy:
‘but these and the parallel universe where they meet again
are things that this she, this he will never know.’
Simply wonderful, there are no other words.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
The poet’s response spoke to the image in a fashion I find very appealing - a global, universal and deeply personal touch. Her work is always a pleasure to read!!
February 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Just lovely, Juliet. The space of never definitely captures my imagination.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:47 am
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