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Andrew F. Giles

Andrew F. Giles was born in Northampton. He has had work published in Ambit, Magma, Equinox, Poetry Scotland and Gutter as well as various anthologies. He has written for The Spectator and Scottish Review of Books and edits online literary arts & culture journal New Linear Perspectives. He recently appeared alongside Don Paterson, David Harsent and others for the Bristol Poetry Institute conference  â€˜Translating Poetry: the Impossible Art’.

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Going Garbo

It is secret & unseen but under your shirt
you are alive, working a panel of pert
buttons with your fingers, as cold coils
of white wire lie & rub against your skin.
The machine whispers, curvature ice thin,
a shield against the grim passing gargoyles
& death's-heads, 1000s of white headphone-
wearing passengers who want to be alone.

You forge 100, 200 glittering train miles
in a capsule battered by bomb-lit vials
of light &, unseen, you detect the dark machine
has a long moving cord, a gland, a spiny dart
that sews your inner ear to your inner heart,
whose sound within its deep & glaucous mine
is pearly-eyed and huddled close to your bones.
You float, invisible spectre amongst travel zones.

‘Going Garbo’ © Andrew F. Giles. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 'Going Garbo’ first published in Magma #53 (2012).

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