Merak Magazine

Foy Timms

Foy Timms

Foy Timms is a poet/writer based in Reading, Berkshire, U.K. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fevers Of The Mind Poetry Digest, Hypnopomp, North of Oxford, Peeking Cat Poetry, Pulp Poets Press and Twist In Time among others. She is preoccupied with British towns/villages, social exclusion and the sociopolitical dimensions of living spaces.

Leaving An Unlistening Life

An owl swivels in her carriage of primordial haunts. In her padlocked church of trees. She knocks against night-forest scars, blithely written in frost and the weight of oak, her sorrowful gagged companion. Claustrophobic caresses of furtive tree voices stroke…