as you light upExcerpt:
as you light up your breath chemtrailing out the car window
I miss
the flashpan
roped-in intimacy
outside nightclubs
flint against a.m. skies
sparks like spearheads
—the brinespit
poetry
shape poem
clubbing
Dilys Wyndham Thomas
I volunteer as an assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal and host workshops for Strange Birds Migratory Writing Collective. My WiP, Breakwater, was longlisted for the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2022.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Selected work (11 publication)
monsters in the shape of people
poem
vampires
poems
folk tales
child abuse
Fairy tale ending
poetry
trauma
assault
poem
fairytale
Last Stop, SilenceChill Subs included it in a list of “12 Short pieces of writing that brought the Wow factor” in April 2023.
Fiction
mourning
mental health
short story
literary fiction