ewen glass

Bad Mantra

I've started seeing in squares

like Picasso and Braque,

corners in the sky,

cathedrals of rows and

column towers. I want to:

kick a load bearing square,

languish in Jenga Falls.

A mantra I’m told can help

so here I am, organic soft

and lumpen, constructing

a reality out of lines,

considering the shape I’m in:

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt. His chapbook, ‘If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea’ is released by Inkfish Press on Nov 14. Other work has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art. Bluesky/X