“Light-eater” – Claire Marsden (Print Edition)

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“Within the pages of this delicate collection, Marsden’s poems emerge as fragmentary expressions of light—brief glimpses into the soul’s landscape. Both concise and expansive, these pieces invite the reader to traverse the intimate spaces between the lines, where the heart of the poet and the heart of the forest, of birth, of death, of the body merge in a shared twilight dance — like a path winding through the woods at dusk, offering a meeting with shadow and light, echoing the calls of our inner wilderness. With an easy intimacy, these heart thoughts gather into a mosaic that is a little bit raw, untamed and beautiful. A timely invitation to embrace the heart we so often seek. As a whole, these poems collect together into something ungloved and a bit wild… and we need a bit wild right now.”

John Siddique – Author of ‘SO’ and “Signposts of The Spiritual Journey’

 

Light-eater

I sit
on the bed watching
thoughts fall.
Naproxen
   Codeine 
 Paracetamol
You took them all, washed down with champagne.
A quiet Christmas cocktail.
Then returned to bed and slept.

The snow kept falling.

I go outside and open my mouth
to the sky.
To call. To catch.
To eat light.

Thoughts fall, it’s okay.
I can swallow them
whole.

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About Claire Marsden

Claire Marsden is a carer, caree, wool-gatherer and all-round nature botherer who writes poetry, creative non-fiction and flash fiction. A number of her pieces have been published in literary magazines, journals and books, and while she is thrilled that some of her words are being rocketed to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex in 2025, her feet remain planted firmly on the earth where she strives to hunt out the light and share it with others, no matter how dark a day may be.

This is her debut pamphlet.

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