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Pascale Petit: The Moor Horses

And isn’t your blood free as a feral pony, coursing
through the uplands of your body?

June 10, 2024 · 10 Comments

Pascale Petit: Roebuck

Tell me there is a meadow, afterwards,
that the roebuck will come
to the top of my garden

May 15, 2024 · 10 Comments

Pascale Petit: Salt Bride

How long has Earth floated in her salt dress?
When did her bridal gown crystallise,
weighing her down like an anchor
inside a dead sea?

April 15, 2024 · 8 Comments

Pascale Petit: Hummer

The suitcase I found
on the shelf above his bed, with its jars
of mummified occupants, how I unwrapped
the photo curled around each hummingbird couple
like a sarcophagus

April 3, 2024 · 8 Comments

Pascale Petit: A Mother Sings

I will rebirth her on banks of the river of life.
Only I have to wade through the river of thorns
while she sleeps.
I am her country and her lagoon.

January 22, 2024 · 9 Comments

Pascale Petit: I asked if I could leave the earth

There was a word for what was wrong with me
but no word for the troubles on earth.

December 24, 2023 · 6 Comments

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