Ava Patel

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I think about trees. I think about seeing a tree,
being a tree. I think about holding, bursting.

I think about being a little seed waiting for spring
and being small enough to fit in a closed palm.

I hate vastness. I won’t live long enough
to forget it. And no, I don’t think about the sea.

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Ava Patel won Prole Magazine’s 2021 pamphlet competition with her debut pamphlet ‘Dusk in Bloom’.  She’s been published in webzines (London Grip; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Atrium; Porridge) and magazines (South Bank Poetry; Orbis; SOUTH; Dream Catcher; New Welsh Reader, The Seventh Quarry, DREICH).