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).
