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THREE PRAYERS
Sunset, midnight, and the new dawn form the basis of three pieces of worship from Ted Greensmith-West for the ‘adjectives.’ collection inspired by the poems of Tracey Slaughter and Tusiata Avia.
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music of the spheres
Ted Greensmith-West sets the spheres alight with musica universalis in this poem for ‘the bad apple mixtape’.
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Painting in Squares for Dora Maar
‘The Weeping Woman’ is a painting by Pablo Picasso of his then partner, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was an innovator in photomontage and surrealism. Dora experienced domestic violence at the hands of Picasso, and history has typically only remembered her as his muse. In this poem, Ted Greensmith-West writes for Dora, an artist and innovator…
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your shame
Overcoming your own shame is hard enough, but how long can we shoulder someone else’s?
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Haunting
Losing a love can become a small death. In the time after, that residual love can become a haunting.
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WEAPONS OF WAR (NO MORE DEAD FAGGOTS)
War wages on the front lines of Ted Greensmith-West’s prose, with weaponised words used in the daily combat of existence.