December’s cut, sun-up/
123456789winter’s day-bud.
Snow-bite/
1234567trees an avenue of bones/
1234567their last leaves
123456789012like skin leaving light.
12345White,
1234567a chain of wings/
12345678901234a luminous edge.
Morning-song a ballad of glass.
12345678Silvery,
12345678day breaks
loose and ecstatic –
an open throat of notes/
1234567890123456789a ghost.
© Gillian Prew
Picture 10449568, reproduction of a painting by Claude Monet, image copyright Mary Evans / Interfoto/A Koch
Born in Stirling, Scotland in 1966, Gillian Prew studied Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1984 to 1988. Her chapbook, Disconnections, can be purchased from erbacce-press (2011) and another chapbook, In the Broken Things, published by Virgogray Press (2011). Her collection, Throats Full of Graves, was published in 2013 by Lapwing Publications. Her latest collection, A Wound’s Sound, was released from Oneiros Books in April 2014. Her latest chapbook, Three Colours Grief, was published by erbacce-press in June 2016. She has been twice shortlisted for the erbacce-prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is widely published with poems at The High Window, The Curlew, The Lake, Zoomorphic Magazine, and Ofi Press Magazine, among others.
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