Andrew Spragg
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Andrew Spragg is a writer and founding member of the Norwich Poetry Choir. He wrote SHOEBOX, a performance piece staged by The Effort in 2010. He was Literature Coordinator for last year’s Norwich Fringe Festival. He is currently studying for a Creative Writing MA at Goldsmith's, London. He has recently had work published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, TOWN and Gulper Eel. He regularly reviews for both Rhythm Circus and Bonafide Magazine. He has a blog at http://www.brokenloop.blogspot.com/ and currently runs Misosentive - a blog for interviewing poets and other miscreants at www.misosensitive.blogspot.com
tipping up in London for a few nights
aquacrunk nu gruel a radio
signal he keyed or mustard cords
on Berwick Street
I've not seen a woodlouse in a while
Patter
Your sadness begins with a hand to the hip
and knotted clusters on the apron strings,
a spoon knocks against a pan-lid
and windows are drawn shut with a click.
The radio broadcasts across a laminate floor;
somewhere a convection from the ocean
rattles shop-fronts and awnings.
Eddies
A sullen sort of mania anchors itself
with buzzing occupancy.
Squat, breathy structures
form in the mouth -
a word which worries
and cautious inquiry pricks
salt - “I am
crying” and uncertain why.
Each one flurries a
caustic descent,
a glut of sight and it was
enough to have been
drowned in such,
wishing for a note of
calm - the present swill
of water eddying about the
abrupt mass and shape,
an oxidizing weight to it.