Size: A4
Finish: Matt

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Illustrations created by Leena to accompany ‘Unclean Magdalene’ and ‘Text Back’ from the ‘Bargain Bin Rom-Com’ poetry collection:

Unclean Magdalene

As if it wasn’t enough
to be without a railcard, apparently now I have to
embalm myself, nightly,
like some kind of Egyptian
ruler. Except it’s just me
and the jars in a stare-off
because I am, I hear,
inherently dirty and clogged,
and so I fight gunk with gunk
and put myself to eternal rest, singing prayers of absolution
over my superfood face oil,
then sprinkling holy toner,
then carrot-infused eye cream before I can consider ordering
an aspergillum off Amazon
to hasten the retinol revolution. Fourteen stations of the skin
for the sin of not living in a placid state on a spinning ball of fire
in a volatile and cruel galaxy,
or at least arranging my face
like none of it is happening.

Text Back

two little letters, tb: a plea to curl the words around and send them back to me.

two little crosses, xx: a test to tease the hinge behind the neck that nods a yes.

two little minutes, tick tick: what we did
before the read receipts that turn my throat into a brick.

two little words, no thanks: a way to tap,
to drain the gaps and fill the world with blanks.

© Leena Norms 2022