The Dead Good Poets online anthology of poetry by writers from and associated with Aberdeen was published in 2006/2007 with funding from Aberdeen City Council.

For more information about the literary scene in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland please see North East Writers.

Fish Hooks

Ivy Alvarez

door crack look
my mother's open mouth
the smell of ink

seaweed crush
between my toes
her side wound is a gill

weeping
for lost oxygen
and the time

before it got caught

From Food for Humans (Melbourne: Slow Joe Crow Press, 2002)

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