scorpion / keys

my dear friend caitlin shepherd runs little scorpion press in todmorden and the first issue of its quarterly zine has a theme of penetration which is obviously a theme that feels much but hey why should it in a way?

I had a poem that i’d had made for ages about beds so I gave it to caitlin who printed in little scorpion press’s issue 1: penetration, which looks like this:

and here’s my poem in it, which is hard to see cos it’s really small but i’m okay with that, you’ll have to peep close

they image of the key comes from cerys hafana’s mom-n-dad’s collection of esoteric breton stickers purveyed at the launch of Angel (2025) last year at sploj