Janet Sutherland

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Janet Sutherland is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Home Farm Shearsman Books,2019 and is working on her fifth about her great great grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840’s. Her poems are widely anthologised and published in magazines such as Poetry Ireland Review, New Statesman and The Spectator. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. She has an MA in American Poetry from the University of Essex. https: //www.janetsutherland.co.uk/)

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I've read that every human has two souls;
one is his reflection on water, the other
is his shadow on the land.If he slips the first
into the centre of the secondand stakes them

to prevent them splitting up,a lattice work
of souls is made, a quaint device,to hold
the transcendental.I am an architectof the
invisible,although I cannot duplicatethis act.

I'd like a soul,just one would be enough,
I'd save it and convert it into code. In faith,
I am a skeleton, my bonesare theoretical,
but still I often dieand am reborn.

Give me the means for longing and despair,
for grace;for breath and breathlessness.

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