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Claudia Jessop has published poems in several magazines, been a runner-up in several national competitions, and is a third prize winner in the Agenda Poetry Competition 2011. Her first collection is titled This is the Woman Who (Cinnamon Press, 2009).
Early morning
I raise the blind, and see
the stacked city
re-invented by sunlight.
Other people’s windows turn
to changing screens
of marbled inks
where glass records the change of days,
a face, suddenly framed
or a glimpse
of someone, folding
white clothing, carrying
a child from room to room,
buttoning a shirt while walking
over the floor.
I am so high up here,
attending to the detail
I think I am alone with it,
but a woman
watering a plant
raises her face; we share her pouring stance, arrested
over her green leaves,
we see each other
before the day.
published in collection This is the Woman Who
Collection: This is the Woman Who, Cinnamon Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-905614-90-5, £7.99
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