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Stav Poleg

Stav Poleg’s poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Wales and Gutter. Her poem sequence on the goddess Athena was read at the Traverse Theatre. Her graphic novel shorts Dear Penelope (with artist Laura Gressani) has been recently acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

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Leftovers

For years I’ve been editing winter.
The rain, inaccurate. The sea,
acres of unwrapped water and nowhere
to find you,
even when I settled for finding you
in other people’s coats
or move-abouts or late-night drunken
weather. Now I know
enough of winter to never
get it right. The season of failed forecasts,
recurring like a ritual,
as if seasons return only
to leave us
with the study of unsteadiness
and repetitions.

Sometimes I throw flat stones into the water,
to hear them hurt the sea.
On other days
I find the pathway to your winter, like in a kitchen,
open white cupboards and
close them, open and open the fridge.


'Leftovers' © Stav Poleg. ‘Leftovers’ first published in South Bank Poetry #19 (2014). Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
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