Helen Addy 33, is from Forres in Moray. Her work appears in the 2010 BUGGED anthology, and several magazines including SOUTH 42, Pushing Out the Boat, and Carillon. On Saturday 15th October she will be joining poets Jo Bell and Rob A Mackenzie for the BUGGED reading at the West Port Book Festival, Edinburgh.

Helen Addy

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Narcissist

for Aileen George

 

Here is a boy with two mirrors.
His arms are simple decoration
and cannot hold them.
He needs a mother,
a lightning conductor,
a pliant frame.

She must keep the mirrors perfect.
One crack or smear and
both reflections pool and sink.
He floats to the surface;
kicking her legs,
breathing her air.