Caitlin Stobie: Extract from Jealousy Experiment

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Green Test the year I didn’t know you were partnered cracked an age of iron with silicon light the geology of our conversations open like sliced ammonites well well well? what’s appening what a well-wishing asking if you’re doing well! you know... in your bones? so humerus Slick as moss, we omitted I from sentences and email threads. We believed subjectless verbs could still the depths of intimacy. Yet, with each pastel message, something greener was growing – a puff of algae fed by water that’s diseased.
Fossil Conclusion Closer than the heavens or sea, mundane as a membrane, inside you and me – between all old friends lies the ghost of green. As the coastline compounds sea creatures and petrified leaves, we lie limestone, a record no stylus can repeat. No more blue pixels, the ticks stay grey, delivered but never seen. That’s the problem with fossils: for the longest time we played believe with what they mean.

Caitlin Stobie

Caitlin Stobie was born in South Africa and lives in the UK. Her writing has appeared in SPAM, Streetcake Magazine, Tears in the Fence, Tentacular, Zoomorphic, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Leeds Arts University and is an editorial assistant at Stand. Her debut poetry collection, Thin Slices, is forthcoming with Verve Poetry Press in 2022.  

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