Tangerine Press proudly presents
Number #5 in the Underground Poems series
'No Holds Barred' by Salena Godden
a new and previously unpublished poem
released Friday February 1st 2019
Indigo printed onto heavyweight natural
archival paper, limited edition, poetry broadside, signed, numbered, suitable for framing and available from today
No Holds Barred
We're outside a pub
and she's yelling
telling me to
get back on my boat
my friends say ignore her
and she's just racist
but I put down my rum
and walk over and ask her
do you need a hug?
I stand with open arms
as wide as a map of the world
she bursts into tears
and I hold her for a while
my jacket gets stained
in the orange foundation
she wears to tan her face
my lapels are streaked
with black mascara
the pub is rumbling
under the mad full moon
as the ripping spring tide
crashes this green island's shore
old souls sailed
my heart is a boat
my ancestors longships
my grandmothers Windrush
the rubber dinghies sunk without trace
(c) Salena Godden / London / 2019
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