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Valentine for Turbulent Times
Jacqueline Saphra
When you open your eyes to find great love
beside you and you tease open the heart
with kisses and coffee and you yawn and yearn
and reach towards this snowdrop morning,
a few lines of bliss might achieve lift-off
but for the cacophonous news that rolls
across your horizon grinning from
its armoured tank as it exits the hatch
to trip you up with its big dirty boots, even
before you have a chance to rise. And love?
There it is, running from fire and terror,
small and useless like the unseasonal
ladybird crawling across this page,
confused about what to do with its wings.
Jacqueline Saphra’s first full collection, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye) was nominated for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2011. Her recent illustrated pamphlet, If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women, was published by Emma Press.
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