Tree

· · 1 Apr, 2023

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Long listed for the 2023 Urban Tree festival writing competition

Galia Admoni reads “Tree”

I'm bashful under yesterday's plastic bag veil / 
Captive apples bathe in rainwater
and filth / A monolith of ancient aches / Your city brain 
too fugged to see my smugness
underneath / A sundress / More corsets of 
plastic / no nest / My chest
bursting to be Hirsted /
Pickled / preserved / worshipped

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Galia Admoni

Teacher. Writer. Musician.

Galia Admoni is a writer, musician, crafter and Head of English, media and film at a school in London. She has poems in Bad Lilies, Anthropocene, Atrium, Dear Reader, Streetcake, Cape, The Storms, Crow of Minerva, Zero Readers, The North, Acropolis, Vanity...

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