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When the power went out with a finger click,
the whole of North Down went black and quiet
as a lake at midnight. Syrupy dim
flooded out of shadowed nooks and crannies,
filling from the floorboards up with murky
tenebrosity, sending you scrabbling
for candles, oil lanterns and portable
halogen torches: a glowing timeline

of ingenuity to pacify
your yelping daughter, afraid of the dark
lest it contained snakes or men made from teeth...

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from Reading The Light, released October 20, 2020

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Ross Thompson Bangor, UK

Northern Irish writer.

Debut collection Threading The Light available now from Dedalus Press.

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