Niamh Haran

a procedure of some kind

the next day: wilting into a crescent 
at the thought of not going out. skin 
teething inside itself. i am a brochure 
of some kind. i visit a newborn, 
my cousin. gloriously panting flowers 
out of benzos. nothing but a drink 
to engulf the maze around me and play 
it for myself. i look up to the moon
for rupture. heaving tentacles of breath. 
does the moon too have caves
separated for grief like this? hormones 
shift like a first lover who confuses 
the sea and sky. the baby is balletic 
and supple. its little mouth of ethics.
the clouds are the same as a high-rise 
sun lounger. a seesaw between 
drowning and falling and drowning.

Niamh Haran is a queer non-binary poet based in London. They are an English Undergraduate at King's College London and member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Some of their poems appear in Abridged, Perverse and Selcouth Station.