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News In
Adam Horovitz
News in from the damaged land.
The soil shakes itself thin
under a bomb-beat juggernaut as faces
fade in and out of recognition until only
a siren ‘O’ of mouths remains.
News in from the land of no words
but those that are carefully filtered,
remixed, distorted, blasted from speakers
whilst a thin rain of metal dances
in slivers under the skins of children.
News in from the furnace,
from the place of betrayal sealed
like a Petri dish, where lies are dropped
from the bellies of planes,
where war grows cancerous on tongues.
News in from the storefront,
from the ache of memory, from
the glittering parade-lands
of suffocated hope. News in. News in.
There isn’t any news.
Adam Horovitz is a poet based in rural Gloucestershire. His first collection, Turning, came out in 2011 from Headland and he released two books celebrating Slad and the Laurie Lee centenary in 2014, A Thousand Laurie Lees (History Press) and Only the Flame Remains (Yew Tree Press). He is currently Herefordshire Poet in Residence and one of Ledbury Poetry Festival's Versopolis poets. His latest release is Little Metropolis, an album of poetry and music.
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