Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Eleanor Rees

  • ‘Five Breaths’: a poem by Eleanor Rees

    ‘Five Breaths’: a poem by Eleanor Rees

    Five Breaths were needed to extinguish the flameand now a red wick leans into the melt, diving into a quarried lakehigh in the mountains to find mouthfulsof salt in the freshwater under the slate. Here, dust edges the decorations. The holly wreath curls, browns,is a woodland floor alongside a streamwhich pours towards the quarry. Inside…