Wild Court

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

Maëlle Leggiadro

  • A poem by Maëlle Leggiadro

    A poem by Maëlle Leggiadro

    He Could Leave You Tomorrow He buys me roses; I forget to put them in water,once again too caught-upin my tangled and scattered thoughts.They’re beautiful but– a little too pinkas if they’ve got prickedon a poisoned spindleperforming an ideaof everlasting beauty.I know soon enough they’ll be wiltedand that’s probably why I don’t water them,so I…