Elisabeth Flett
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
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.
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