Issue 10
poetry
“Richard”
by Ian Powell-Palm
“A Rainbow Comes” by Andrew Furey
Jaw hung
Like a port for invading
Ships
the entrance Richard first noticed
before demanding I soil a pair of boxers
for 300 dollars
My Montanan detritus brutal enough
To banish back the wounded landscape
Clasped between his legs palms then absolved
In hotel rooms stolen from company funds
His nephew watching Family Guy in the room over
As Richard begged for condoms choked
With my children’s flailing bodies
Because he knew I’d take the money that came
With splitting open his gut
Because what better way to capture a portrait
Of a man nailing a younger man’s hide to his back
Than to touch him when he can’t possibly bear to touch himself
a thousand groins splintering in the dark silver wounds
we will swallow like milk come morning
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Ian Powell-Palm is a writer, poet, and musician currently living in Belgrade, Montana. His work attempts to interrogate familial trauma, sexual identity, and the resurrection of the dead. You can find more of his work on Instagram at @Ipowellp16.
Andrew Furey was a photographer who focussed on the abstract. He was born in Ireland but spent much of his adult life in Nottingham where he could usually be found on riverbanks with a camera in hand. Tragically, he took his own life in Amsterdam on 12th of April 2022. A posthumous exhibition of his work is taking place in R Space Gallery, in his home city of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, from 12th through 18th of April 2023.