The May WDTL is about to be folded and placed on the station. It includes poetry by Stephen Beattie and Mary McQueen, as well as prose by Petra McQueen. The beautiful illustrations in the leaflet are drawn by Charmaine McKissock. In addition to our new leaflet, we have a poem by Alex Toms on Platform One.
Ghost
Ship
I see you for
the first time
at the hospital
today. The sonographer
smears gel on
my stomach
and rolls the
probe over it.
Your image
swims on the screen,
hazy as fog
above a mapless ocean.
Moored to me by
a silver thread, you seem
insubstantial
as a ghost ship – the merest gust
and you’d
resolve yourself
into a fish, a
sea monster
or nothing at
all.
Yet you drift,
oblivious
to me and my fears,
your spine thick as a
barnacled keel.
A coming and going of
whiteness
indicates your heartbeat –
a winking beacon.
If I could, I’d send you
three bright
stars to light
your nine-month
night, guide you safely
to the harbour of
my arms.
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