Talia Randall

five minutes before a shame

i hold my giblets
up to the light
see how ugly
the plastic bag is
bleach is the best filter
through which to examine
the greypink details
choke down
on a can of milk
is that dough i can smell
or a cherry flavoured condom
grip the plastic shower hose
orifices slimed with mildew 
a mandatory splash of water
dishwasher warm
make a tent from a rubber glove
zip down the flaps
curl up quiet
as a grub
small as a daughter

Talia Randall is a writer, performer and creator of What Words Are Ours? a Deaf inclusive poetry show.  A feature on What Words Are Ours? appears in the current issue of Myslexia. Talia has performed at Wales Millennium Centre, Southbank Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Roundhouse, Glastonbury and The Edinburgh Fringe. Her poems have been published in Bath Magg, Fenland Poetry Journal and in the anthologies Poems from a Green Blue Planet and Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them. She is on Instagram @talia_randall