Marie-Louise Plum
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Weaponised Lullaby (What I’d Like to Do with You)
Halberd to your crown (a grand beginning)
Tiger claw to your cornea (specialised and nasty)
Scimitar to your inner thigh (classic move)
Borer to your instep (clever, I thought)
Quick ride on Cavaletto (just for japes)
Caltrop for kneeling prayers (inexplicably unpleasant)
Threshal under the silvery moon (where we sing together in pain)
Carding, carefully, slow (own personal favourite)
When you’re fully flayed (almost there, keep still)
it’s Carbine - point blank - and then (bombastic ending)
Brazen Bull to bed (sleep well)
Marie-Louise Plum is an emerging poet, writer and artist, b. 1981, living in London, UK. A friend of field and water, her work focuses on the natural world, unusual landscapes, belonging and identity, and the space between reality and dreams. Published in Le Mostre (prose), Superpresent (prose poem), and, most recently, Now the Author of the Glazed Water (poetry). Her short story Accidental Artemis will be published by Tough Poets Press, later this year.