Wild Court

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

‘Window’: a poem by Tim Cumming

Window

Her hand reaches through a slim shaft of
morning sunlight falling across a goldsmith’s
window on the corner of a 1930s block
in the centre of town eighteen months
into the war, double prams crammed on buses
buckling under the press of human flesh,
passengers peeling off and climbing on,
skirting that one couple pressed to the glass
of a goldsmith’s window watching
jeweller’s fingers reach in for the ring they
have chosen to bind them against the storm,
brilliant new growths erupting from
the freak conditions of their existence.

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Tim Cumming

Tim Cumming has published ten collections, from 1991’s The Miniature Estate with Smith/Doorstop through 1999’s Apocalypso with Stride to The Rapture (Salt, 2011), Rebel Angels in the Mind Shop (2015), and Knuckle (2019), which were published by Pitt Street Poetry in Sydney, Australia. Blueprint Poetry published his pamphlet Adventures Among the Living in 2022. His work has appeared in Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry, the W. S. Graham anthology The Caught Habits of Language, and Bloodaxe Books’ anthology of poetry from Ireland and the British Isles, Identity Parade. In 2007, he made the BBC documentary Hawkwind: Do Not Panic.