Joseph Butler

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You know that splendid tiny trill
That children think stars make
As they burn a billion backyards over?
No, little one, that tinkling sparkle
You’ve attributed to literal heaven
Is the noise of my blood when veins
Are too small to stop love’s rush to you.

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Joseph Butler, 24, is a queer British multidisciplinary writer, artist, monk, rambler and current PhD student whose work interprets the modern world through realism, spirituality and becoming, always influenced by people and places, moments in time and the soul.