Even your own room
can seem unfamiliar
in the dark,
a hand that is too damp
around your fingers,
the first boy/man
to sit on your bed.
He’s not going to hurt you
but he could.
A sweating whisper –
intimacy
opens its jaws.
Lorna Martin is a recent creative writing graduate who is writing and performing in East London. Her work has most recently appeared in Roulade Magazine and Crush Anthology. She was awarded the 2016 Brunel Writer Prize and was shortlisted for the Mslexia Poetry Prize in 2014. Lorna is currently working on her first chapbook of poems. You can follow her on Twitter at: twitter.com/lornarabbit.
A Quiet Courage 