Elena Knox

Hyrdroponics

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I keep your hands on my windowsill.
Potted, cut off at the wrists, and they grow.
They are the most gentle hands I know.
Spring-cleaning the house, I still find solace
in their unassuming presence:
stable, going their way
about a grey photosynthesis
they are money-spiders, grey and gorgeous
grotesque and graceful. I remember when they had an owner.

Found them in a back room
and brought them out again into sunlight.
Ornamental, free of weeds,
I think they are happy.
I think, when I am not at home, they sign to the sky.
And I never forget
I will never forget
to leave the window open.

I am sorry
I am sorry
I had to keep a cutting.

Rapunzel

so blood ugly
she's
been told
and there's a nice
end to it lucky
to be
behind
such a lovely desk

screen-wise and lip
stick fucked
plant after plant
dies guess she doesn't
have it
- lovely view though
see the whole fucking
world from up here

made it
big in a way
(she says big
is how I feel sometimes
horizon rushing at me
like a tripwire)
well she's not
that big

she's a size
twelve well
the boss
wouldn't know
he's a man a
machine wouldn't
fuck well you know he
never looks up

blank as a no-cent
stamp she serves
crud coffee but
a lot
of the world's
not as nice
as this office and
she's lucky -
there's windows

Beveridge, Judith
Bleakley, Kathleen
Boyd, Allan
Brennan, Michael
Burns, Joanne
Cameron, Lainie
Cassidy, Bonnie
Chang, Jessica
Clarke, John
Cooke, Stuart
Crane, Michael
Dechian, Sonja
Doran, Ben
Doupe, Juliana
Drewitt, Andy
Dyson, Mia
Elson, Gerard
Ferney, Liam
Garrard, Phillipa
Gibian, Jane
Greagen, Clint
Hawkins, Brian
Hickey, Kelly-Lee
Hier, Michael
Higgs, Ashley
Jelfs, Bradley
Jenkins, Gareth
Johnson, Heather Taylor
Jones, Jill
Kefala, Antigone
Keily, Tom
Knox, Elena
Locke, Kate
Lowe, Justin
Mackie, Brendan
Mann, Paddy
Messiah, Eytan
Minter, Peter
Mitchell, Paul
Morganics
Narkiewicz, Katrine
Nicholson, Anna Kerdijk
Nixon, Jenni
Oliver, Stephen
Paine, Juliet
Prater, David
Purchess, Andew
Robbins, Rachel
Scott, Ryan
Smart, Steve
Sinclair, Tim
Sometimes, Alicia
Stavanger, David
Stuart, James
Tsaloumas, Dimitris
Walter, Lesley
Webster, Ben
West, John
Westbury, Deb
Wicks, Les
Winch, Ben