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​It’s Just Like Heaven by Harry Lowery

8/6/2023

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A large tree in the middle of green woodland. Large white text reads: It's Just Like Heaven. Smaller text reads: Discussing disabled characters in fairy tales and folklore.
A large tree in the middle of green woodland. Large white text reads: It's Just Like Heaven. Smaller text reads: Discussing disabled characters in fairy tales and folklore.
      sometimes, I sit in the shower,
          knees in a crease; the water,
relentless, raining
on the nape of my neck,
                 finding its way
            around my body
                            like a first lover –
 the droplets cling to eyelashes
                                 like a prayer
                    clings to Christ –
tears
 
 
Insanity
/ɪnˈsanəti/
Noun. the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness
 
 
      staring at white tiles,
                 the light, face
                        evasive, a bluebottle
against glass
 
                      I leave the shower,
wandering to a bed
like Joaquin Phoenix
             in the climax of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

About the author:
H. K. G. Lowery is a writer & musician from Gateshead. He gained a Distinction in his Masters in Creative Writing from Graduate College, Lancaster University. The department of English Literature & Creative Writing awarded him with the 2021/2022 Portfolio Prize for his work which received the highest mark in the faculty. Lowery has recently been published in Poetry Salzburg, Errant and The Ofi Press. ​
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