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Bex Hainsworth
@poetbex.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. WALRUSSEY, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is now available from The Black Cat Poetry Press: www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
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My poem 'Cardea', about the Roman goddess of hinges, is part of @soflopojo.bsky.socialsouthfloridapoetryjournal.com

Cardea Janus will tell the story differently, but I came to that cave knowing what I had for currency. I opened for the god of doorways only once. That was the beginning and the end of it. In return, he granted me divinity: I became deity of the humble hinge, guardian of the world’s threshold. Lingering on the periphery, lady of the liminal. I blessed your homes, kept watch as your fingers locked in your husbands’ hair, every elbow and knee a clasp, whilst children slept on in your orbit. You hung hawthorn, berries bright as paint, over cradles and lifted your prayers to me. I listened, and let no evil thing come for your daughters, your houses remained unhaunted. My hands are calloused, now, from all the iron I have caressed, clutched. From fresh hinges shiny as fish scales, which allow doors
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Bex Hainsworth
@poetbex.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. WALRUSSEY, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is now available from The Black Cat Poetry Press: www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
781 followers883 following102 posts
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