Sarah Jarrett, Claire Gibson, Blaise Sailes

ONLY IN SLEEP
Claire Gibson
like maps the lines of bark
Are etched in the dewfall.
Let us lie in the colour of colourless Breath
As the yellow collar of air
Ruffles the branches
Of grey newspaper trees.
Sly eyes look away from the
Clotting shine of light and dark,
Hanging fiercely
And the grey felt of dusk slips loosely
Around the girdle of fertile dreams.
Only in sleep
Do riches fade into gaps that bleed,
Do visible scars stampede,
Only in sleep.
DREAM WAVES
Blaise Sales
a thread of blue
w(e)aves through you
drip-laced to set
your sticky beads a-rolling
blue blooms in the gap-stitch
of synaptic touch
some real fork-in-socket stuff
blue (s)wells of light
recede you bleed and bleed
and breathe nothing
but fibrillated blue
blue’s pulse (s)ticks
to the threadbare stitch
of your streaming
dreaming skin
all the neural patterns
that never become images
blue’s murmur-beat
pounds through your skin’s
ductile rings
your (e)yes
patterned orbs give way
to throat
the throat a mirror-ball
the zero-radius of your throat
a mirror-ball blue sings
the (n)ever-language of thought
blue writes
the metric (c)inch of skin
blue rolls
your throat-strings
a wavelet for your voice
a wavelet for your pluck
blue lets in
lets out
the oceanic impetus
to vacillate
a wavelet for your form
a wavelet for your graciousness
the rip of time blue opens
rip(e) to bursting
this warp
of blue beyond you
diffracted
to a diamond
the (s)pool of blue
flowing
through
the beat of blue
you
are
Sarah Jarrett's work thrives on the art and processes of transformation using collage and painting to breathe new life in an existing idea. She loves to explore the human relationship with nature, themes of light and dark, incorporating vintage and contemporary styles. Sarah is a visual storyteller hoping to create an emotional resonance with the viewer and a sense of magic and wonder. sarahjarrettart.com Instagram @sarahjarrettart
Claire Gibson (Booth) has written seven poetry books and is publishing hopefully her eighth collection in January 2025 Path of Swans. Claire reaches out for the spirit in her work and also designs greeting cards. @everywordisamemory
Blaise Sales is a poet and PhD student at the University of Leeds, where she researches brain-body-world relations and ecological fiction. She co-edits the journal Poetry and Audience and co-founded the postgraduate poetry writing group 'Kerning'. Her poetry has appeared in Anthropocene, WRoCAH Journal, Consilience, CePRA Journal, Priestley Climate Poetry and Poetry and Audience. She is currently organising a visual poetry workshop on animals, language and surrealist anatomies at the Henry Moore Institute.