Rumplestiltskin
Watched the tracer flares,
the new rubble,
the old man’s face
across the ledger.
Smiled, secure
this could not be fought
in his name.
Chris Hemingway is a poet and singer-songwriter from Cheltenham. He has appeared recently at Cheltenham Poetry and Literature Festivals, and self published a collection, Cigarettes and Daffodils, in 2012.
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[…] The Future (2016) and Cigarettes and Daffodils (2012) and his work has appeared in The Stares Nest, Three Drops from a Cauldron and Lunar Poetry amongst others. Chris helps with the running of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, […]
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