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Go shoppingstepping out
onto the sunset
catwalk, London
juts its bones in
couture: organza
sky distressed
over the West End’s
knowing armour – it’s
all about structure,
darling, the single
crane dangling its
ruby earring: blood
pendent amidst blue,
last drop on the map
wrapped and worn
as a dress; the full
moon is artless, a silver
given, a fluorescent
puffball scattering
glitter spores of desire
over the shards, ascendant
crystals healing only
sceptics: the hard city
softened by chiffons of
fog as it tries to rise,
a ten-inch heel spiking
the stars into the sky.
© Sophie Mayer, from Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009).
Sophie Mayer is the author of Her Various Scalpels and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A politics of love (Wallflower, 2009). She is a Commissioning Editor at Chroma and moderator of the English PEN Online Atlas. Her writing about film and her poetry have appeared in magazines ranging from Sight & Sound and Vertigo to Staple, Seam and Stand.
Hi i really like this
have you done any more about fashion?
Elle.x