nectar poetry

ANGELIKI AMPELOGIANNI

Title: Tuesday by the river poem: crystal blue waters please, don’t a yellow blanket smelling of lemongrass knees pine cones and stinging nettles second day of June a hand some stray ducks moving a pair of white Converse seventy three days breath shaking, uneven only a slight breeze under a scolding sun fuchsia stickers on skates the promise of free movement, gliding hair uncut, untamed the white house on fire rose bushes growing growing growing blue notes on green and brown, flakes walking among reflections of bodies water pushing through fists on the sky mouths wide open that familiar sun cream smell who will be next all the colours on our skin if only yellow jumpsuit, yellow socks, hazel eyes the currents strong, so blue words from a speaker some song black out black squares black hearts a sip of water yellow hand sanitiser gel in clear bottle hands in hands in hands how long do not picture this the thought of legos and baby arms gliding moving fast like green brown ducklings say their names swans caressing a jazz song walking in a river on a tuesday simple, slow humming over a radio rays locked down leaves on the surface water hoping and the fear of the easing of rules

Angeliki Ampelogianni is a Greek writer and poet. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. She currently lives in Oxford with her favourite human and their favourite house plants. In her spare time she enjoys a few too many decaf coffees, and quinoa cheese puffs. Her work also appears in the Kindling Journal, Porridge Magazine, and Lucent Dreaming among others. You can find her on instagram @angel_de_la_vigne, and twitter @ampelogianni

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