Ed Limb

Location: Kings Cross, London

Ed grew up in Nottingham, and recently graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied English, acted, and wrote. He currently lives in Kings Cross, London, and writes around his 9-5. He is grateful to have had pieces published in The Gentian, Cake Magazine, and Sideways Poetry.

Date poem written: 28th June 2020

The Window Box
June 2020

 She kept a tub of dirt as a pet
in her tasteful Clapham flat.
Spice-rack, unstained curtains.
Soapsuds coalesce.
I can’t decide what to plant.

What if I go off the flowers?

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 Sifting hours, we trace words
on each other’s backs –
violets, perhaps? – letter and
number, then growing bolder –
- instrument, animal, plant –
marigold? – I guess.

Lockdown blues spill from a
speaker, that old refrain:
What shall we ever do?
What can we do, but train like
ivy the afternoon between our
shoulder blades?