It Happens All at Once
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — It happens all at once. One day you’ll wake up, wash and dress and say- I really must do all that work then make things neat and...
View ArticleTo Die Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Peter says you’re growing up too fast. Says you’re getting too big for your tree and we can’t let you stay here forever. You’ve...
View ArticlePins and Needles
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Red Riding Hood stared at the wolf man at the crossroads at the path of needles and the path of pins. The meaning was lost on...
View ArticleSlug Guts, or Entosthia Gymnosalianga
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — A boy spread strawberry jam on his toast, his father watched and they stood a minute. How come strawberries taste wet and...
View ArticleColoured pottery lid, Egyptology
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — A big blue circle drawn with long, wavy arches, uneven edges all round, faded and dull. The curves are sunbeams, painted for Ra...
View ArticlePram
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast Published in the Live From Worktown 2014 anthology — A bakery, takeaway, charity shop, Chicco logo, scuffed shiny grey plastic...
View ArticleThe Right Thing
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Doing the right thing is easy, but it isn’t much of a thing. You get a little bold, a little brave, but then, oh, you have to do...
View ArticleBubblegum Pop
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — I want to pipe bubblegum pop through white headphones, to you in one earbud and me in the other then drop it on the tarmac as a...
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