The London Library Emerging Writers Programme Anthology

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iii. 250 days here the walls preach

to show us

bursting us

from dark

heaven us

part

here

we more than

is our glass are in

form

we cleave two

tissue

intoone eyelids pried

frowning splankna we track her

our

bleeds away we knew

yes

what to expect

a new dark

warmth

split

a sun all night

we surge cells in

too soon

to caesareal grin

is the hull deliverance

we know in

by one dilating

waited

that coaxes us

here

here

we too soon

with us

is the atom

let there be

the culling

to

her

we neuron

when all else

let there be

darkly

is the mirror

is the scream

safe passaging us from

sliced scent we brought milk another room a midnight

whose broody light to shine

on me

Gravida borrows language from Psalm 42:7.

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