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22 year old writer, recently graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing.
Passions include writing,19th Century history and literature, thrills, pugs and the colour purple!
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Joanna Costello Poems
This is a poem of two parts. The first is from the view point of the anorexic, the second is from the view point of an outsider viewing them.
Poem published in the Bath Spa Anthology 2008, and ...... more »
The Bronte Sisters by Patrick Branwell Brontë, c.1834. Oil on Canvas, National Portrait Gallery
You sit so still in your crusted frame ... more »
Smell of death in the trenches
One time we recalled what it was like to smell death.
Some of the new ones argued that you couldn’t –... more »
Published in Bath Spa Anthology 2008.
You slept, peaceful, after our last night.... more »
Smell Of Death In The Trenches
Smell of death in the trenches
One time we recalled what it was like to smell death.
Some of the new ones argued that you couldn’t –
The clean air of home still lingering under their noses
like some bottled source of nostalgia and they sighed.
Others lay rotting in corner bunks – their skin white
and the Gerry shells rocking them to sleep.
One says that death smells like smoke.
The kind of smoke shells let off in black lingering mushrooms,
like some ever-present threat knocking on the door.
It blocks out all other smell and wears you down:
You forget ...
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