Hannah Rogers is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Strathclyde. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The L.A. Review of Books, Small Orange Journal, The Boston Review, and Catch & Release. S.A. Leavesley is a poet, fiction writer,…
morphrog 18 has poems by the following poets. Please click on the poet's name or use the navigation bar at the top of the page. Naomi Wood Edward Lee SA Leavesley Robert Ford Frank McMahon Daniel Bennett ME Muir Hannah…
Closed. A Gift. A cut. Buried in the depth of you. Just enough to leave you in ruin But not so the eye can see. A fissure the exact shape and size As fire To rip through more than a…
I FEAR Some days I fear I smell of suicide, my decaying thoughts reeking, seeping through my pores, staining the very air around me, invading the nostrils of passersby, companions, potential lovers, causing them, forcing them, to quicken their steps,…
(Un)watching I watch through city shadows – patches of life snatched from window silhouettes. When a chair is empty, I wonder what the unwatched is doing further inside his square flat. The watched only exist for me in half-conversations…
Snow falling on the ocean See how from out of the folded arms of the cloud you have descended through, ushering the puzzled cows from the sodden slopes down towards to their byre, it comes spilling, a salt-shake of…
NIGHT SHIFT New laundered linen, the duvet crinkling as I slide underneath, the amber glow of the night-light tints the ceiling. Slow, slow as the day sheds its weights and toils and I rise lighter through solipsistic dreams…
Brutalism Like a long graveyard for each of our unborn futures those dreams we had of taking flight and skimming across city skies of knitting our wide ideals into something commonplace (like popcorn or a Saturday or breakfast or a…
AIR II later the heavy burdened air struggles to lift off as the jet stream pauses lungs lose momentum Celsius hits 40 a gauze of bankrupt breath escapes from runners lined along Victoria Embankment children play…
Scarecrow You literally remember your childhood as sunny. what is a lover's childhood? by necessity, it is the imagined past that makes the crucial now. You are convincing me that the parts we are remembering together: the cherries, the…