five poems
by KG Miles
Leaves of a bruise
leaves of a bruise believe they cast a meagre shadow
pushing sorry sorry sorry like mangled lollipop birth
a rationed penumbra with Sophie quickening from a crack in the piss a bed pavement
warm yellow and biotiful in the way that only the unloved remember
surviving with one long long long merthyr mermaid grasp,
a mingled life and breath
living before an upturned lo fat just essentials yogurt carton
flicks off the sun from the switch on the wall
Fulfilling Positions For Lower Class Girls (In Service, 1925-2025)
Starched to attention
awaiting his tin finger buggery.
Modest pantyhose reviews on a YouTube channel
Waffle House waitress kiss
hosed down every hour on the hour
with toffee custard cups.
Naked flutter hips at Cosmetology School
but avoiding sucked and butter lips but.
A Lower Class Girl will always fashion a useable dish.
Matins with a stolen spoon
prior to giving birth to sugar puffs*
Sophie gave thanks to a god,
meandering sheepishly as pissing. A god
from the limited number available in her price range. A god
in three parts. A god
from a shopping list of condescending men.
*Harvest Morn Godlike Puffs( contain Ferrous Fumarate- common side effects include vomiting, diarrhoea, death by freezing, staining of teeth, loss of appetite, pestilence and change of stool colour to tarry black.
The indescribable * horror of an aristocrat forced to live in a flat
Jesus conjures a Limited Series as Sophie makes a brew
(the posh way, through a tennis racket).
We sat and chatted and played a duet
two cups, two saucers and a canvas sack,
a 100 watt lightbulb placed on a chair.
Hairdresser**, typist***,dead nanny, prop.
*72a Elizabeth Street. a
What does that say?
It says flat, not house.
A horse infirmary giving birth to a garage
It says work. It says workers. It says common people. It says scum
It says unbearable humiliation.
**Intercourse occurred and she became pregnant.
***Intercourse occurred and she became pregnant.
Sucked and butter lips (Despite Punch’s unapologetic murders throughout the performances, it is still a comedy)
That’s the way to do it.
The snob screen flips and twists a frigid face in wooden frame
with sucked and butter lips.
That’s the way to do it.
A Pretty Polly swazzled voice lisps ‘Jesus is behind you’
as she slips frozen skinless swags into baby’s shush bag hood.
That’s the way to do it.
A can-can crocodile of contracted spastic kids
with sucked and butter lips barricade the aisles to summer cheer
and the truth is choked into the shape of a camel balloon.
‘To all the Judys, love Mr Punch’.
Photo of KG Miles
BIO: KG Miles is a writer and poet from South Wales, author of the bestselling 'Troubadour Tales' series of music books. His poetry has been published in Wales, Ireland, England and in the US and his first chapbook Poetry For The Feeble Minded was published in 2024.