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From ULR
Issue 12 – Gender & its Discontents
Lamina
A vulnerable, elemental self, like kelp, offers raw love and profound gratitude for gentle care
December 15, 2024
I am a blade
a frond of kelp drying out
on a rockpool
waiting for the next tide.
And you, with your watering can,
brave barnacles, uneven rocks.
I bring ginnels of seasalt
between bloated pockets.
This is how I love you.
I am slime and gratitude.
This is how I am
some of the time.
Don’t turn away as the sea returns.
I am of an undulated tangle
in a forest of possibility.
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PART OF A COLLECTIONLamina and 5 other poems
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Hannah Linden
Hannah Linden is a working class, queer, neurodivergent poet based in Devon, UK where she lives in ramshackle social housing. She is published widely, won the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition in 2021, was Highly Commended in the Wales Poetry Award 2021, and is currently shortlisted for the Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024. Her debut pamphlet, The Beautiful Open Sky (V. Press), was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet 2023.