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Oh my word
I wasn’t thinking
as I moved like a dancer
the sweet spot & I so
in love we couldn’t stop meeting
like this
and this
it feels as though
you have all the time in the world
Jeff Skinner‘s poems are widely published, most recently in The Aftershock Review, The Alchemy Spoon, Black Nore Review. His pamphlet, Us, is shortlisted for the Live Canon pamphlet prize. A former foodbank and Oxfam bookshop volunteer, in July 2023 he was diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative condition. He listens to a lot of music, watches football, reads, writes.