You’ll Never Be Anyone Else

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Friday Poem – ‘Unfitting’ by Rachael Clyne

Close up photo of sparkling gold sequinned fabric

As Pride Month draws to a close, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Unfitting’ by Rachael Clyne from her collection You’ll Never Be Anyone Else.

Catch Rachael at Bookhaus in Bristol from 7pm tonight (30th June) launching the book alongside Elizabeth Parker, Robert Walton and Claire Williamson. Buy tickets from bookhausbristol.com.

Unfitting After Caroline Bird Like a glove on the wrong hand, the moon out at noon. I was salt in tea, shoving my leg into a sleeve, stuck on the singles table at weddings, stifling the crush on my best friend, calling my partner they, or trying to book a double room in a B&B. How I distanced myself from those women in the bar on the Kings Road, where some wore cufflinks, others, heavy perfume, tight dresses. I couldn’t bear a skirt, without the safety of a gusset. The chips from my shoulders make a magnificent outfit: gloved, salty and glued with gold.