bluebottle

by Line Ford

in a glass room

scudding in frustration

I open a window

it tries another

I open that one

it tries the door

I take myself outside.

Line Ford is a poet, writer & maker of visual poetry from Barmouth, Wales. She works part-time running Kurdish linguistic rights projects. Line publishes a ‘zine for street-sleepers in Bristol called @now_you_zine_it Her translations of Turkish and Kurdish poetry have been published by Palewell Press, Smokestack Books and Parthian. Bluesky, Instagram, Website (she/her)

Image credit: Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944) The Seven-Pointed Star No. 1 (1908) Artvee.com