Hilary Mellon has been involved in the poetry scene since the early 80s. She’s read at venues all round the country and judged several poetry competitions. Her work has been published in over ninety different magazines and anthologies, four pamphlet books and one full length collection. She runs writing workshops in Norwich.
The Word Market
It’s where they go –
both of them traders
dealing in images
It’s where they meet –
between the creased pages
printed with poetry
And it’s where they sometimes come together –
teetering always on the sharp edge of an extended metaphor
until their words bleed
© Hilary Mellon
Box of Tricks
What comes out first is fuzzy floss
soft to the eye
rough to the touch
scratching at my fingernails
catching me speechless
rapt with amazement
while it slowly unwraps
revealing something transparent
which I fall into
crawl through
slide out the other
side of
It contains nothing
and everything
Then suddenly
from underneath
poems come spilling out like a long string of silk handkerchiefs
until it’s impossible to close the box
And then I realise that this
this is the magic of it
This is your real trick
© Hilary Mellon