Amber Stanza Forrester

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  • Themes of distant yet frequent death and subsequent unsettling grief

    Themes of distant yet frequent death and subsequent unsettling grief

    This place is not a welcome place. Autumn is ending. Death is close.

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    December 2, 2024
  • The universal gesture for peace

    The universal gesture for peace

    Each time we play cards, I find I have forgotten the names of the suits and their kingdoms, the rules of this game, the first game we played together.

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    October 1, 2024
  • Plastered

    Plastered

    There is red wine everywhere

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    April 5, 2024
  • The wind is soft to me tonight

    The wind is soft to me tonight

    The wind is soft to me tonight John is in the garden and Marge is sitting on the balcony talking to Anthony and I’m walking through the kitchen trying to find you. Someone said you were in the bathroom but that was a while ago now. They’re starting the fireworks soon and before the air…

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    February 11, 2024
  • omnivore

    omnivore

    Pushing peas across your plate- Pressing them into the glaze You’re a picky eater

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    January 16, 2024
  • June and a tangerine

    June and a tangerine

    It is June and I wake in pieces of children- the children I won’t have, the child I won’t see again.

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    August 4, 2023
  • Fig

    Fig

    It is not apricot season In Tescos they are hard and bitter

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    May 15, 2023
  • White wine

    White wine

    Bright bodied, you come at me like its night time

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    April 10, 2023
  • Love letter to Spring

    Love letter to Spring

    I taste your words Even with your back just turning: Your breath is warm enough to sleep in.

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    March 31, 2023
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Amber Stanza Forrester

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