Elisabeth Flett

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and so we went to amsterdam

you, brushing top soil
off the coat in which you were buried

me, forgiven
for all the mistakes I made in your absence

sitting in silence
as we watched the cyclists go by
the sky no more blue and bright
than the day on which we first met  

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Elisabeth Flett is an award-winning writer, theatre-maker, musician and general feminist trouble maker. A regular performer at Speakin Weird and a competitor in the 2023 Loud Poets Slam (North East Heat), Elisabeth won University of Aberdeen’s Literary Lights Non-Fiction Prize in 2021 and the July 2023 City of Poets Tiny Prize. Her writing has been published by Hysteria, Coin-Operated Press, Leopard Arts, Bits and Pieces, Queer Out Here, Apricot Press, Glasgow Zine Library, Penumbra Online and Out on the Page.