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Krystelle Bamford

Krystelle Bamford’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review. In 2010, she was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and was shortlisted for the 2011 Bridport Prize. Though raised in the US, she has been living in Edinburgh for the past seven years.

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On Visiting the Sexual Health Clinic before Work

Our neat nurse,
her shoes
like over-floured cakes,
separates us--
boy / girl.
We hold slips to say
we have been less
than careful.

What we hold back
is worth saying now:
this carelessness
had been our broken bread
some small hours before.

                     *

The waiting room’s light is:

                     dark honey mixed
                     into pasteurized cream.

              or
                     white fat
                     cut with vinegar. 

              or   (can we say it?)
                     both: The honey and vinegar,
                     the fat and the cream.
                     The cream, fat, vinegar,
                     and the honey, the honey,
                     the honey, the honey.


'On Visiting the Sexual Health Clinic Before Work' © Krystelle Bamford.  

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