DEAL

Rachel Chanter


September and praying away the ringlight glare of summer O unmaking of me, o rictus 

of fume The midjourney plasticity of the hot city retreats, now the creeping saint of 

the new season claws at the space under the door But today is a camera mounted on 

a falling object, so the world turns around it, fulcrum of happiness, cockle-sweet after 

the jumperless days in which my callousness has surprised me A week of stunning heat, 

then the weather breaks over the coast like the feeling returning to a limb, the first drops 

hitting the asphalt of England The offshore windfarm is a distant Avalon, greyed with 

grape-bloom horizon and a peace so complete descends that no question troubles 

me, not even how long will you love me, not even how many days like this do we have 

left to us.

Rachel Chanter is a poet from Lancashire. Her poems have appeared in Neon, The North, and Terse, and she has reviewed poetry for Ambit, Oxford Poetry and The Compass.