KATHRINE SOWERBY


Strings 2


‘about lighthouses not having to move to save a ship’


September 2024




invitation



i’m inviting myself
to replace the webs
you swept away

i’ll stand on a chair
and pin them
from corner to corner

look how they
wobble in the breeze
from the open window






lavender



the more
i think

about
not wanting

the more
i stand

arms outstretched
thumbs up

the opposite of
goodbye






lilac linocut



is there a word for when you expect to have an emotional reaction
visiting a place where you expect to have an emotional reaction but then
you don’t have an emotional reaction and all you have are facts –


                                                                    and two windows
                                                                    that meet at an angle
                                                                    one facing town
                                                                    one facing the shore
                                                                    the castle
                                                                    the flour factory
                                                                    when the trees
                                                                    aren’t covered
                                                                    in leaves






peach cushion



my lips are staying moist
for longer

i replied

i will be walking by the sea
sleeping in a library

thinking it
both fact and invitation





KATHRINE SOWERBY lives in Glasgow and is the author of (Find Yourself) at Constant Falls (Blue Diode Press), Tutu (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), that bird loved (Hesterglock Press), Tired Blue Mountain and Unnecessarily Emphatic (Red Ceilings Press).




2024