Silence by Frederic Belaubre © 2014. Frederic Belaubre expresses himself in a wide and varied range of styles and techniques from classical to minimalist and from traditional to experimental. He works and exhibits in his Parisian workshop at the foot of Montmartre. You can find out more about 'Silence' here, and more about Frederic and his work here.

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Those Things We Do Not Say by Angela Readman

They fall silently, beautiful as snow

we did not press with our boot prints,

 

some days rooms are landscape, paled

with possibility – cocoons of words

 

that lived in our chests but did not fly

to our lips. The scent of rose hip,

 

sour milk, sharpened knives,

breathes our could-haves to a half life,

 

sure as fibres in sunlight screening

a movie of the chair where a cat

 

fell asleep. Those things we did not

say float above us, settle like dust

 

marking the spot where a gold ring

sat on the shelf, a small frame

 

with a picture inside of who we almost

were, we swiftly, swiftly, wipe away.

Angela Readman's poems have won the Mslexia Competition, The Essex Poetry Prize, and been commended in the Arvon International Poetry Competition, the Cardiff, and Cafe Writers. She is also a twice shortlisted Costa Short Story Award Winner.  Her short stories are coming out with And Other Stories.

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