‘King’s Sugar’

King’s Sugar
Is bitter
To taste
Strangely
Soft
To touch
Queen’s Honey
Amber, Glass, Syrup
Sticky
Smelly
Sweet
Summer
Modern Nuns
Don’t keep bees
I know this
Because
Email exists
Praying 4u
Holy
Sista

© Lauren McCarthy 2006



‘Spores’

Spores
Like the
Secret Garden
Infect you silently
Fruit Bodies
In the grass
In a ring
Kill or cure
Seeping poison
Via ostiole
Skin
Ripe
Picked
In the forests
Of Finland

© Lauren McCarthy 2006




‘£20’

Underbid
Antique set
Of twin decks
In brown leather
Box
Sellotape damage
Exposes
Suede
Like dead skin
On a
Grazed knee

© Lauren McCarthy 2006