a literary magazine.
Two Poems...
Tumbling
Are you
levitating
to the ceiling
at your own
birthday party?
Are you
shaking hands
with balloons
that have been
stuck there?
Are you
falling through
the colourful static
in your parents’ TV
from the 70s?
Are you
speaking about
British politics
with a giant
smoking caterpillar?
Are you
sneaking
cigarettes in your
Hello Kitty purse
again?
Are you
skipping meals
because you want
to shop at
Brandy Melville?
Are you
spinning like a falling star
before your head cracks
the cement due to
your irony deficiency?
Are you
praying to God
every night, promising
your lips have not
sinned in the darkness?
Are you
taking
ibuprofen?
Northern Lights
Spilling green rivers
tangle with
purple gods’ tears -
A painting that wavers
in the sky.
It reaches for
white canvas
of the mountains.
Or to rip away
from the frames
of ozone, to fall
into the cosmos,
darker.
Bio: Anna Shirshova (she/her) is a poet who studies and lives in London. Her latest work has been featured in Pile Press, Phantom Kangaroo, Impostor: A Poetry Journal, Blue Daisies Journal and is forthcoming in The Lovers Literary Journal, Gypsophila Magazine, and W.E.I.R.D. Anna is also a co-founder and editor for an online magazine The Literary Canteen. When not writing Anna is busy scrapbooking, obsessing over scented candles or visiting as many coffeeshops as she can. To discover more, follow Anna on Twitter: @a_lowenzahn.