1 Poem by Natalie Crick

No Surprise

There was no rain

Through the sky sagged and slumped,

An old coat cradling the lane,

Wearing thin with empty pockets.

You are inclined to believe the latter; luminous purple, ashen green.

And you are wrong because I remember that part

But, I forget where we were. Does it matter?

For poignancy is often personified when we are lost.

We swallowed the road with great swooping gulps,

Bounding with confidence, as very small cars often do.

The moon ran with us, I noticed,

Which was thoughtful, because we were all alone.

The forest mob loomed up on the left,

Hurling hostile tremors from her core.

We bravely edged onward

Though our faceless friends were engulfed in her silent roar.

We tore through the black

And he followed.

In a soundless haze, the hooves vaulted upward,

Clearing us with space to spare.

Bionote

​Natalie Crick has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. Her poetry is influenced by melancholic confessional Women's poetry . Her poetry has been published in a range of journals and magazines including Cannons Mouth, Cyphers, Ariadne's Thread, Carillon and National Poetry Anthology 2013.