Poem of the Week: Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Opal Menilite from Agramón

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The first poem is from Fiona Pitt-Kethley's pamphlet
Mineral Adventures (£5)








The Opal Menilites of Agramón

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Bright yellow broomrape bursting from the clay,

close to the minerals we’re searching for.

Nothing’s what you’d expect in Agramón.

Blue-grey on grey at first they look discreet

and crisp as sugared almonds in the walls

until we marvel at their varied forms.

This quarry’s the sex-shop of the mineral scene:

Willendorf Venuses, testicles, dicks

beside more toy-like marbles, skittles, ducks

and half-formed pre-pubescent young girls’ breasts.

A heavenly jest, perhaps. Exuberant,

tumescent, waiting in their matrixes.

If stones could speak these ones would say to me:

“Release us on an unsuspecting world…”