{"id":2704,"date":"2016-04-11T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2704"},"modified":"2016-04-14T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:53:33","slug":"roberta-verdant-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/roberta-verdant-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Verdant, April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never Feign Normality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like to use the fur under my arms,<br \/>\nthe skull around my neck,<br \/>\nto repel those I want to.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safer, really,<br \/>\nby the time we get to questions<br \/>\nlike: what interests you?<br \/>\n(Sex, death, magick, the forest).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;By the time the possibility<br \/>\nof the bedroom may be looming,<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;ve already worked a little repulsion,<br \/>\nspun the occasional enchantment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Sex Stories &amp; Sadness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An old friend is murmuring to me<br \/>\nher sex stories &amp; sadness&#8230;<br \/>\nthough she&#8217;s not sure why the sadness.<\/p>\n<p>When she tells me<br \/>\nhow her boyfriend approaches her<br \/>\nall I can hear is sadness.<br \/>\nInwardly, I sigh,<br \/>\nmake suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t understand, though<br \/>\nis why no-one&#8217;s told her she deserves better;<br \/>\nwhy she doesn&#8217;t believe she deserves any better.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, it&#8217;s not just her, is it?<br \/>\nThe world is spilling over with women<br \/>\nwho&#8217;ve never noticed they deserve any better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Stripping Down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a neat month after the poisoning<br \/>\n&#8217;til the question:<br \/>\n&#8216;How are you?&#8217;<br \/>\nMightn&#8217;t prompt the possibility<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll sob over the questioner.<\/p>\n<p>The months&#8217; of death-too-close,<br \/>\nThe almost-not-breathing<br \/>\nrolling behind me<br \/>\nlike waves in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>A Blanket of Wildness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I walk down to the Battery Rocks.<br \/>\nShed clothes like dead skin.<br \/>\nThe stones are slippery,<br \/>\nwet, green, algae clad;<br \/>\nliving things.<br \/>\nI slither like a seal<br \/>\non my belly. Slide<br \/>\ntil body meets water.<br \/>\nInfinite cold blue<br \/>\nwraps me. Safe\/<br \/>\nnot safe, now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Roberta Verdant lives in the UK. She swims in rivers, animal-whispers and blogs for The Huffington Post. She plans to train as a death midwife. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertaverdant.com\" target=\"_blank\">RobertaVerdant.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Never Feign Normality I like to use the fur under my arms, the skull around my neck, to repel those I want to. It&#8217;s safer, really, by the time we get to questions like: what interests you? 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