Creative Writing
Danne Jobin’s pamphlet was shortlisted in the Best Unpublished Pamphlet category for the Disabled Poets Prize 2024.
The winners were announced during the 2024 Deptford Literature Festival, at an online event.
Danne Jobin from – Scar Tissue
© Danne Jobin 2024
Forgive me, mum
for the nights
I sprout hair
and howl at the moon
I use as a mirror,
voice echoing hoarser
and thicker each time.
doesn’t this wild streak
run in my blood?
the shapeshift dew
I rub into my thighs
has me thirst
for something other–
yet I am not the first to stray.
hear me speak
this newfangled tongue:
a disturbance of air
as I tilt my head upward,
dizzy under the tense
weight of the stars