swallowing the night for breakfast / pete donohue
we trip through dangerous shadows
cold steel against our bony hips
& sometimes momentarily at our throats
our breathlessness is always precious
fuelled by images of sweet survival
as we drift our gaseous way through neon
predators see us as children
yet childhood is a state we never visited
in a way we are a family
far beyond the boundaries of the everyday
only for us this is our everyday
scaling urban mountains
tumbling deep through desperate valleys
locked in emotional hibernation
to counteract each newfound depravity
& swallowing the night for breakfast.
Ireland born and London raised Pete Donohue works in community mental health in amazing Hastings on the dirty south coast of England. His poems and short stories have been published by numerous underground and alternative small presses in the UK and USA. After three sold out chapbooks, his first full collection of poetry, swallowing paregoric babies, is published by UnCollected Press (available from: www.therawartreview.com). He is currently working on a collection of short stories.
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