Emma Dodd

Emma Dodd is a poet based in the Lake District but currently living in Edinburgh, studying psychology. Her poetry talks about sensations, relationships, and djungleskogs (teddies from IKEA) among other things. Until now, her work has only been shared privately with friends and other poets.

Connect with Emma: Instagram @emm.dodd Twitter @emlouisedodd

Honey

She was of honey and wine. Honeyed pastry, the back garden patio With wine glass depleted, From which she could hear the hives’ Sleepy insectile thrums.

She liked dressing as an earthbound astronaut, Beekeeping suit blinding white Jars of honey lining the kitchen counter (Please take one home darling!) With the astronaut the bees were quietly enamoured.

Her colonic sting came from an Unrelated fatal bullet That appeared too fast, stayed too long. It grew with malignance, absorbing her sweetness, so she Walked beyond the garden and crystallised into snow.

Now she sweeps over the sky releasing Divine snowflakes, melting at touch, Animating a lamplit romantic walk. The pair Pause open-mouthed, to catch crystals On love sweetened tongues.