ceremony of mine
photograph, cut it up
ask the mirror to pretend
decorate myself
wallpaper the cracks
look to the stars
and when they blink
put my new face
where it belongs
make a circle
make it clean
break it
Barry Charman is a writer living in North London. He has been published invarious magazines, including Ambit, Firewords Quarterly, Bare Fiction Magazine and Popshot. He has had poems published online and in print,most recently in The Literary Hatchet and The Linnet’s Wings. He has a blog at http://barrycharman.blogspot.co.uk/.
ISSUE TWENTY THREE: Let Yrs Slay Me
Toti O'Brien
Second Blooming
Donna Dallas
Epic Wretch
Juliet Cook
When I was a little girl,
I threw a rock at a crab
and accidentally killed it
Jennifer Metsker & Kendall Babl
Uninvited Images Arriving
to the Lightless Shale of Sleep
Heikki Huotari
Unfinished Sympathy
Barry Charman
Becoming
Benjamin Nardolilli
Pay Attention Update