Artwork by Jallim Eudovic
Where’s the meaning
in the message?
Look how the words bend
back and touch themselves;
or break; two dancers
parting in space and here
the message ends
‘I lobe you.’
I’m not talking about
free spelling, I mean
doomed reading. Like
cutting open a fig, your typeo
splits my reality down the middle
and because being
follows knowing
I eat the blackred flesh
and throw away the skin.
Well meaning, we stumble
at the slip of a thumb,
bring the curtains down
with us, and there,
on the stage,
the pas de deux begins.
~ Fintan Calpin
Fintan Calpin is an undergraduate studying English at Wadham College, Oxford. His work has been published in Notes, ASH Magazine and The ISIS. He is currently editor of The ISIS Magazine and co-founder of the upcoming zine Stories. He lives in Oxford and South East London.
