Blake Auden

Blake Auden is a poet and author based in Brighton, UK. He has been featured in Forbes, Metro, The Bookseller, Book Riot, The Economic Times, Sussex Life, Coast Magazine, The Mirror and scores of others. He is a winner of the Button Poetry Short Form Prize, and the judge for the The Moth 2023 Poetry Prize.

“Pull,” “The Fall,” and “Moth”

Unsure how many lives I’ve taken.
Hornets, spiders, the boy hardened – unbelonging
in the furling roots.
But this isn’t about the bodies,
it’s their shadows, seeping through the openings,
weighing the bones with dark.

Issue 78, October 2023

Blake Auden

Blake Auden is a poet and author based in Brighton, UK. He has been featured in Forbes, Metro, The Bookseller, Book Riot, The Economic Times, Sussex Life, Coast Magazine, The Mirror and scores of others. He is a winner of the Button Poetry Short Form Prize, and the judge for the The Moth 2023 Poetry Prize.

“Pull,” “The Fall,” and “Moth”

Unsure how many lives I’ve taken.
Hornets, spiders, the boy hardened – unbelonging
in the furling roots.
But this isn’t about the bodies,
it’s their shadows, seeping through the openings,
weighing the bones with dark.

Issue 78, October 2023

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