IT’S GOOD WE KNEW

Oenone Thomas

if we had made love in that room

over the hometown pub,

we would have torn open

the Artex ceiling

and the space time continuum,

 

we would never have left

the young farmers at their pints,

the bar woman’s uneasy joints,

her woodbine-shade

of shifting chignon.

Oenone Thomas is a poet, psychotherapist, and chocolatemaker, brought up in South Wales and southern Spain, and now at home in the south east of England. She is in her second year of Writing Poetry MA at Poetry School, London. Her poems have appeared in Magma, The Broken Spine, Black Bough Poetry, The Alchemy Spoon, The Selkie, Wee Sparrow Press, and 2023 Live Canon Anthology. She was shortlisted for the Live Canon international poetry prize 2023, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Her work will appear in the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts ‘Best of Creative Writing Anthology 2024’.