Fall/Winter 2015-2016



Penelope Shuttle

IN THE AIR

How will you fare
up there in the air

starring
in the in-flight movie
of your life?

How will you fare
air-side

lightly-propelled
by your everyday pilot?

And when turbulence
rolls in
like a rolling pin

wielded
in a fist no angel clenched

to biff and bash
the plane
how will you fare?

Best not pluck
the thunder flower

as you spin
in the wheel of fortune

faring up there
in the air

alongside
cloud-canopy

and free-fall
of the heart
from Heath (unpublished)


Penelope Shuttle lives in Cornwall, UK. Summer 2016 sees the publication of HEATH, a collection co-written with John Greening (Nine Arches Press). Bloodaxe Books will publish her twelfth collection, WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER, on her seventieth birthday, in May 2017. She is a poetry tutor and mentor with a number of organisations.

 


 

Poetrybay seeks fine poetry, reviews, commentary and essays without restriction in form or content, and reserves first electronic copyright to all work published. All rights to published work revert to the author following publication. All Email submissions should be in body of email text.

To submit poems write to:

PO Box 114 
Northport NY 11768
or email us at 
 info@poetrybay.com

send comments to info@poetrybay.com

first electronic copyright 2004 poetrybay. 
all rights revert to authors

website comments to dpb@islandguide.com