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In Other News
Helen Mort
They bring a woman’s body to the light
this morning, down my road, and match her
to the name the nightclub knew her by.
Caroline Everest. 18. Sunk in the river
off Summerfield Street. Today, the posters
can come down, her face and shoulders
taken from The Moor.
In the folded paper, Karla Jacinto, forced
to sleep with 30 men a day for 4 years
since her kidnapping in Tenancingo, Mexico,
her story carried on the stop-start bus
that ferries me towards the day, stalls
at Matilda Street. At the work function,
I’ll stand before a man who grabs my shoulder,
says I need to tell you something, champagne flute
in hand, follows me up the stairs, whispering
Shami Chakrabarti has amazing calves.
His routine look. His parting words. It can be
a terrible disadvantage to have nice legs.
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. Her first collection Division Street was published in 2013 and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her next book, No Map Could Show Them, will be published by Chatto & Windus in June 2016.
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