Midday
Red coat slumps. Accordion
fold. Brown Bag Army fashion
show. Fire and brimstone, not
quite complete. We’re all going
to Hell in the High Street. The
voice, sweet voice, holds no
remedy, but hope and, then,
fear. Fire
and brimstone, oxygen
dies. Brown Bag Army
fashions another
disguise.
Anthony Arnott lives in Ormskirk, Lancashire and is currently working towards an MA in Writing Studies at Edge Hill University. Along with poetry, he enjoys writing fifty-word stories and has had work published in Peggy’s Blue Skylight, First Edition Magazine, Question Mark, The Journal, Streetcake Magazine, 50 to 1, Postcard Shorts, as well as in anthologies such as The Strand Book of International Poets 2010 and Liquid Gold. A keen reader, Anthony has read in support of Jerome Rothenberg.