by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
There’s a chicken at my door that I’m trying to ignore. She can SEE that I am napping but that chicken keeps on tapping. Now the cockerel’s at it, too, with his cock-a-doodle-do. And I know I’m looking surly, but it really IS quite early! And look, here comes the cat....
by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
Snaggled between pavement cracks, you’re dentes de leon, toothed lion, tarakhshaqūn, bitter-leaf herb, until the ragged petals shake loose, become the dazzling yellow of a sun, if the sun was a flower. Each flower of yours is one hundred flowers, strung on fields of...
by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
I have found salty Medusa locks laid to dry. I have found a colony of sea-tempered stones, a mermaid’s purse and a cuttlefish bone. I have found jellyfish big as size twelve boots, battle-weary barnacles, keyhole limpets and stillborn crabs, pale as blackthorn bloom....
by Rachel Piercey | Dec 29, 2025 | Issue 10 poems
In the early morning rain, birds materialise from a blanket of fog like a magician’s trick. Grey shapes fly closer, red, yellow, and blue shimmer, sparkle, burst into the sunlight like tiny fireworks, become bright cardinals, tiny goldfinches, bold blue jays, before...
by Rachel Piercey | Jun 27, 2025 | Issue 9 resources, Resources
All of the poems in Issue 9 are also available as free poem-posters to download, print and display. There are also free, downloadable teaching resources around the poems ‘Giant Wall’ by Cindy Faughnan, ‘A Gargantuan Book of Ginormousness’ by Barbara Bleiman, and ‘The...
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