Portry Here And Now

Presenting Birmingham's poetess

:Liz Potter

Casting

If we were doing Snow white

I want to play the mirror

or if that's gone, the poisioned  apple;

somthing you get your teeth into.

If we're doing that one about the girl and the bird

I can walk on the broken glass.

I can play

the uninvited fairy

anything in the ice Queen,

The pantomime horse ( both ends)

Aladin's former sweetheart,

and, presently in rehersal,

the witch.

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Ein Geidi

This is an oasis, a couple of hotels

And a swimming pool, a splash of concrete

In this dusty landscape. There is no religion here.

In the restaurant a woman waits for

English speakers and bores for the US.

I escape.The locker room is running out of keys.

The world is here.

The sun shines on the water as I float.

Everything is clear.

T feel that I can swim to Jordan, but when I try

All I do is drift.

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