MI O VUKU (A VUK NA VRATA) by Megan Pattie
Megan Pattie reading ‘Mi O Vuku’
CUPID’S CHAPTER by Lucy Cundill
Lucy Cundill is a poet and prose fiction writer from Chesterfield, now living in Norwich, where she studies English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has been published in The Writers’ Café Magazine, Full House Literary Magazine, Concrete, the Life Lines zine, and the UEA Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology. Her work can be found @ futile.devicez on Instagram.
but there are fossils in language too by Kayleigh Cassidy
but there are fossils in language too
when we talk about
ourselves post breakup
why do we preserve our
exceptionalism? why
do we crave pity to fill us
like the blue in the wings of
the jewel beetle at messel pit?
at messel pit
lost animals remain.
we see history
and say ‘wow
look’ ‘what do
you know’ ‘I wish I’d
discovered that’
at messel pit there is fur on some of the fossils
a snapshot of a lost world.
nostalgia is blue but also rose-
tinted memories of the best times
‘oh why oh why do
things have to die’ change,
die again. skin shadows on fossil.
on the surface, the mud is neutral.
clean clay. spade.
how do we know where to dig?
under the surface, mud is truth.
Kayleigh Cassidy is a dyslexic writer, comedian and visual artist who studied Creative Writing at Birkbeck. She was long listed for the MIR Folktale competition and is a writer and performer in How to survive Your Life podcast. Her writing and collages have been published by TOKEN, Rollick and 3:am magazine as well as Ertoplasty and Visual Verse. Kayleigh likes walking and during lockdown has really got into jigsaw puzzles.
