{"id":41618,"date":"2011-10-25T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T09:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=41618"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:21:09","slug":"three-poems-sarah-crewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/three-poems-sarah-crewe\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Crewe.<\/p>\n

Argento Removals<\/strong><\/p>\n

flies they float black dots displaced
\nlegless crotchets in minor key
\na drone a flock to rot
\nsarcophagus chlorine hue
\neven the birds forgo a feed
\nmy pitch so pitiful
\ni start to pack tenebrae heels
\ncrescendo cased i writhe in white
\nfind red at my feet and follow
\nto a lion’s lair leap inside
\nits belly walls pinks and greens
\ndrip down so slow colour cryptic
\namber black flicker butterfly to moth
\nsmile to shudder catch it cup it
\nrelease in sound paint stained whistle
\nto erotic horror i think
\ni could be happy here<\/p>\n

Simone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simone says
\nPut your hands
\nOn your head
\nSurrender-walk
\nBanshee bird dance
\nFirst right after
\nNext set of lights
\nSplit the Red Sea
\nWave to Babel
\nBow your berry head
\nTo the Greco grotesque
\nSimone says
\nCover your ears
\nThe boy who says fuck
\nCan’t possibly be yours
\nBe your own Boudica
\nClimb red-black chariot
\nScratch itch for Euston
\nWake in Bloomsbury haze
\nHair pinched at platform
\nAnd wild eyes to boot
\nSimone says
\nRoll up your sleeves
\nIn dishwasher prose
\nIn pugilist bleach
\nWrap your tits
\nIn net curtain
\nKeep close to chest
\nHope brash best front forward
\nCan hide swinging brick
\nSimone says
\nListen love
\ni’m not Simone
\nOn reaching road
\nHer mind is changed
\nI can be Simone,
\nRosa, Ulrike
\nWhatever you want
\nSimone says
\nPut your hands
\nOn your hips
\nAnd hope for
\nA sea change.<\/p>\n

Luca<\/strong><\/p>\n

ice cream parlour shared epithet
\ndry mouth melody swirls Suzanne Vega
\nPastiche in tribute eulogy obscured by
\nhorizontal thunder horse gallop
\nglue van waiting room
\nbricked up in battle bottled shades
\nof blue
\ntabula rasa rolled on red paint
\nvinyl on matt skin
\nas Luca left his
\nlover twisted key death hit our return
\nbroke it to my bones Luca long departed
\nmetal shed vibrated on undertaker’s hands
\nburst on blue sofa and howl for the last
\nno current or constant no thrash and recess<\/p>\n

no ebb and flow tide reclined out
\nblood cachet sea but eyes are all dry
\npadlock razor rust capillaries closed<\/p>\n

\"sarahcrewe\"
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nSarah Crewe<\/strong> is from the Port of Liverpool. She’s had work published in Ink<\/em>, Sweat & Tears<\/em> and in Lamport Court<\/em>, and is poet in residence at The Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield<\/a>. She is in love with the sea, but afraid to revisit Daryl Hannah’s mermaid film Splash in case it is not as good as she remembers it being when she was a little girl in need of long hair and marine power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrap your tits
\nIn net curtain
\nKeep close to chest
\nHope brash best front forward
\nCan hide swinging brick
\nSimone says
\nListen love
\ni’m not Simone
\nOn reaching road
\nHer mind is changed
\nI can be Simone,
\nRosa, Ulrike
\nWhatever you want
\nSimone says
\nPut your hands
\nOn your hips
\nAnd hope for
\nA sea change.<\/p>\n

By Sarah Crewe.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}