Marcus Smith Poetry
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spelled with stones on the slope of a teenager's hill,
tagged along rainy highway sound barriers,
scrawled on an overpass of the M something,
stenciled in Arial across the side of a moving van,
...
Up here transparent turquoise fish with red stripes,
silver minnows - thousands - brilliant yellows
and greens and showers of gold ashimmer through
meadows of soft, pulsing mauve coral fans
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Inspectors at Dover discovered us
Slumped behind crates of tomatoes,
Suffocated in the airtight freight-hold
On the hottest weekend of the year.
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Bring your boots. My cabin stands in an empty filed
That once grew sweet corn, and our dry winter promises
A rainy season the way laughter follows a grim joke.
We'll walk the mud and try to ignore the surrounding acres
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One shoe lying in the street.
Two tossed on the crosswalk.
More shoes leading to the bridge.
A path, a pattern, a confetti
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Connected
The buzz, the vibration -
Who? Now? Why? Must.
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I knew. For years he kept the curtains closed
and paper-clipped together, stayed inside
slumped in a reclining chair, fingering papers,
ringing a small brass bell each time for pills
...
Marcus Smith Poetry Biography
British/American poet Marcus Smith's newest collection, SEZ/everything, speaks, is forthcoming with Live Canon, London. He is a two-time finalist for the Cinnamon Press Book Awards. He has been shortlisted for The Bridgeport Prize twice and has published in many journals and anthologies in the UK, US and Europe. He has received prizes from Poets on the Lake, The Plough Prize and The Southern Poetry Review, as well as nominations and commendations from the Pushcart Prize, The Nation/ “Discovery” Award, Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Thomas Hardy Society. He was was a Merit Fellow in Vermont College’s MFA program. In his work M. Smith says he “likes to play off his transatlantic background and experiences while acknowledging that poetry should be accessible to all cultures.” He works in a variety of styles – lyric, formal, epigrammatic and, more recently, a spontaneous process of poetry initially sent as texts and heard as songs on the street. Micro-reportage, verbal video clips, staccato lyrics, haiku and a hybrid of something quite new and direct come to mind. M.Smith's recent journal publications in the UK include: Ambit, Acumen, Envoi, Orbis The Rialto, Stand, Staple and The Shop. In the US Able Muse, Atlanta Review, The Classical Outlook, Salmagundi, Slant and The South Carolina Review have published his work. Poetry Salzburg, The French Review and Recours au Poemes have also published his work. His reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, PN Review, Dark Horse, Staple, Rattle and Pleiades. He lives in London with his lovely wife Jennifer and their three children. )
The Best Poem Of Marcus Smith Poetry
In The Garden
When I catch you
(says the mother to her son)
You won't catch me
(says my lover to me)
(I've locked the garden,
I've hid the key)
Give it to me
(says my love to me)
I caught you!
(laughs the mother to her son)
You in crimson grab my arm,
bite my hand for the key.
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You have a new comment about your poem: 58 DEAD IN CARGO: Marcus, thank you so much for writing this. I feel so sad and feel like crying while reading this poem and it is important that you have given life to this fact in our world through your lines. Thank you very much.
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Aung Si Comment: Thoughtful poem and written in a fantastic fashion. Loved it.