Do You Like Your Current Work?

Henry St Leger

I work like you wouldn’t believe. A leaking pipe, a flashing 

light, a canary’s fickle lung. I work like it’s going into fashion, 

hourglass reversed each time it runs out of sand. I work so hard 

that I ultimately doom the rescue crew sent to find me. Two 

minutes, I say, as they continue gasping for air.

Henry St Leger (he/they) is a poet, journalist and Cambridge literature graduate who has appeared in Propel, Poetry London, Magma Poetry, and Broken Sleep Books’ Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices. Their debut pamphlet, he/hymn, was released in 2024.