Maggie Sawkins, The House Where Courage Lives

What is Written

One among many,

red leaf

that I troubled

to pick from the ground

in the walled garden

of Strokestown Park.

To the hotel

in Carrick I carried it

to lodge in between

the middle pages

of Constance Markievicz,

in whose revolutionary life

I’d hoped to find

distraction.

It was day nine

and the young man, Janusz,

was an absence none

could fathom.

Who knows

what attracts us?

Why we keep searching

when logic

tells us nothing

of the living will be found.

Red leaf,

I don’t even know your name.

It was the end

of Autumn. Most things

that were destined

to fall had already fallen.

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Joolz Sparkes, Face the Strain

Objection overruled

To pass the male law that governed every part of

her body, the clause was proposed by Mr, the

righthand man of the male MP for Mankind, and

gathered the support of male representatives Mr,

Mr and Mr who proposed its introduction into the

House of Male Representatives via a male clerk

and delivered it to the male Committee members
where Mr, Mr and Mr debated and voted on the

viability of her body then referred the clause to the

male Senate and male President and the Queen

(a one-off) and male Prime Minister who passed the

law within minutes of the latest girl being born.

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