The Night Before Their bodies open. Black-bar bones hold tight, try to hold in skin let loose. Toes flex in the tree-root earth. Night falls into their fire and smoke licks tongues, nipples, creases, crevices. Torsos chafe. Limbs buckle together. Blush pink. Jo Dixon Jo Dixon is a poet, critic and academic living in Nottingham. She is lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University Leicester. Her poems appear in a range of publications, including New Walk, The Interpreter's House, Furies (For Books’ Sake), In Transit (The Emma Press), South Bank Poetry and Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse (Oneworld). Her debut poetry pamphlet, A Woman in the Queue, was published by Melos Press in 2016. Her first collection, Purl, is forthcoming from Shoestring Press in 2020. An article on Alice Oswald can be found at C21: Journal of 21st Century Writings: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.588.
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