Mess by Sophie Walker
Focus by Matt Ahluwalia
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Concentration.
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What are you doing?
Buying some karma.
Fitness
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Concentration
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When was the last time -
Fitness
Objective
Concentration
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When was the last time you said that to someone? When was the last time you were that vulnerable?
Shut up.
Fitness
Objectives
Concentration
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Fitness
Objectives
Concentration
Undistracted
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When was the last time you saw me?
When was the last time you saw me?
Fitness
Objectives
Concentration
Undistracted
Success.
Now what?
Shoes by Lisa Anina Berman
I spy
In the median—
A baby slipper
On broken glass
Cockeyed stilettos
In an alleyway
Army issue combat boots
At the creek’s edge
Converse on a wire
Drugs sold here
A lone flipflop
Washed up
Next to a syringe and tar-matted gull.
Tiny Rivets by Jack Charter
We saw trees and cyclists
and strange glistening stalks
which you said looked poisonous
as you shifted your blue skirt
away from them.
It was a good day.
Accidental.
Not a day we’d hacked away at
and scarred with plans.
There were trees so hollow
we could fit inside them
and you took a picture.
I kept looking at your bangles.
The sense of decoration and beauty.
The beads on your handbag, or your bangles
and their tiny rivets
forming patterns.
I heard the ash cloud from Iceland
would make beautiful sunsets,
peach with pink streaks across.
There wasn’t one
while we were in Richmond Park:
the sun set much later.
