The Loneliest Language
A man shakes his newspaper at the sky
shouts in some language I don't recognise;
the loneliest language in the world.
His words rise up and disappear
unwanted, nobody wants to hear them
nobody even looks at him.
Late night on the Underground a woman
sings some dirge like song.
We sway, and a man in a white shirt
two sizes too big proposes to a woman
in a white top one size too small,
we clap and she declares herself
the happiest girl alive.
Someone gives her a peach to celebrate
producing it like treasure
with a turn of the hand,
a tender thing, a soft skinned fruit.
I look at newspapers folded
like wings of drunken angels at my feet
and think of deforestation.
Sophia Argyris grew up in the north of Scotland and now lives and works in London, UK. Her work has been published in numerous print and online magazines including Inclement, Volume Magazine, Pyramid, the Aesthetica Annual, Silenced Press, and many others. She also has poems in several anthologies, and her first collection of poetry was published by Erbacce Press in 2010.
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A man shakes his newspaper at the sky
shouts in some language I don't recognise;
the loneliest language in the world.
His words rise up and disappear
unwanted, nobody wants to hear them
nobody even looks at him.
Late night on the Underground a woman
sings some dirge like song.
We sway, and a man in a white shirt
two sizes too big proposes to a woman
in a white top one size too small,
we clap and she declares herself
the happiest girl alive.
Someone gives her a peach to celebrate
producing it like treasure
with a turn of the hand,
a tender thing, a soft skinned fruit.
I look at newspapers folded
like wings of drunken angels at my feet
and think of deforestation.
Sophia Argyris grew up in the north of Scotland and now lives and works in London, UK. Her work has been published in numerous print and online magazines including Inclement, Volume Magazine, Pyramid, the Aesthetica Annual, Silenced Press, and many others. She also has poems in several anthologies, and her first collection of poetry was published by Erbacce Press in 2010.
Check out the details for Sophia's book on our Book Shelf!
