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Cathy Wilson Cathy Wilson lives in
Bristol, where she writes and teaches poetry part-time. Her first
career was in ecology, which continues to inspire her writing. Cathy
has contributed to several locally produced anthologies: most
recently Underwater Haiku (FIRE Lab, Swansea University) and Inking
Bitterns (Gert Macky).
How would you describe
your dry cough? A wanton desert airstream: Calima, Simoom or the forced evacuation of a bittern’s boom? Insidious reed-rustle, susurration of
membrane or aeolian harp moan with windpipe for strings? Staccato exhaust catch in-the-throat or stag’s rut rumble gutteral grunt? Sandpaper rasp on rusted latch or snow-shovel grate over salted gravel? Dusty eruction in a choked chimney stack or coal-shale shift in a disused adit? Explosion of air in a forgotten boiler or full throttle death-rattle ...
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