Today on the street a crowd—all reds and blues—congealed around a body the egg white face uncovered yet something in the twist of her mouth suggesting she had already floated away like a teardrop balloon leaving me and the city far behind I remembered this street filled with the jazz of gossip oohs and aahs […]
Adele Evershed
Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who now lives in America. Her prose and poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Every Day Fiction, Grey Sparrow Journal, Anti Heroin Chic, Gyroscope, and Janus Lit. Adele has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and short fiction and Best of the Net for poetry. Finishing Line Press published her first poetry chapbook, Turbulence in Small Places. Her second collection, The Brink of Silence is available from Bottlecap Press and her novella-in-flash, Wannabe, was published by Alien Buddha Press in May
Loose Lips
In the color room in Manchester / nesting amongst the scraps / she coughed up a menagerie / with thicker strokes / filling herself up on bubblegum trees / bizarre and beautiful / a time when hair was rebellion / when people shouted wear a hat / to show you up or shove you down / […]