Jenny Hamlett has an MA in creative writing, has facilitated writing workshops and was Poet in Residence for Cassies, a garden on the Isle of Wight. She organised Penzance Poetry Society Stanza and is the current Treasurer of Moor Poets in Devon.
Kinlochleven
Discovered late evening
the fall
is the colour of a woman’s hair
as she strides
her last few years.
This sheer beauty
offers no pulling back
from the uninhibited
plunge
down vertical rock
a snatching of time,
hurling it
into the pool.
If seconds were iron bars
she could jam
in the cog wheels of a mill
she could not keep them,
against this grey fall.
Better to turn away
climb
one slow, hard step
after another towards
the winter pass
at Lairigmor.
in collection Playing Alice, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2017;
previously in ARTEMISpoetry Issue 7, 2011
and Words in Air app, 2013
Publications:
Playing Alice, 2017, Indigo Dreams Publishing, ISBN 978-1-9108343-2-9
Talisman, 2009, Indigo Dreams Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9561991-9-5
The Sandtiger, 1994, Longman, ISBN 0-582-12169-8
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