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Emma Lee Hutton

Emma Lee Hutton

Let's see what happens

Racing ahead, rushing at speed.
Where does it come from, this urgent need?
This need for an answer, conclusions, the ending.
Why can’t you be happy with simply suspending
and hanging in mid-air, waiting and seeing?

(2013)

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Autres oeuvres par Emma Lee Hutton...
Us. You and I.

So here we are then, you and I. Us. When did you and I become us? I look at you. Look back at you through a myriad prism of snapshot…
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Into the blue

Rolling back off the rocking rib,… into the swollen sea. My wetsuit f… with chilly chains of cold. I hold… my mask as the lead pulls me low.… the blue I go. Into the deep I si…
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Collecting memories

Do we both know this must end? Is that why we’re collecting memor… Living the present for the sake of… Reliving the moments before they’v… My collection’s growing daily
Funeral (part 1)

The grey sky hung low and heavy That cold October day. Downstairs, the house began to rou… —I chose to stay away. Well-intentioned warmth and care
A mother's infidelity

Pulling the door closed with a cli… the spring air pulses through my v… With a quick, light, fickle step I start to feel alive again. As his body thrusts its way to the…
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To London

If I could live my life in suspen… I would choose to live it with you… If I could be young forever witho… I would be young forever with you. If I could stay in this moment an…
Thermocline

It catches her unawares Cinching cold in her chest Veins of icy crystals Freezing inside herself It hits her deep in the lungs
Homesick

White spots sparkle on the water, Sun streaks catch the waves. Eyes bubble - startled tears. The train moves on its way. This place. This nook. This small…
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Fallen angel

Dirty, fallen angel With your dented, grubby halo You’ve been up all night again, Drinking with the devil’s foot sol… He’s left his smell on you
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Secrets of suburbia

Secrets of sleepy suburbia behind… Kicked off high heels, scruffied s… still, hidden lives play out insid… Dark dramas execute themselves and… mundanity trickles on and the surr…
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Wordless

Her eyelids unfold slowly, night shutters open. Her horizon begins to fill, takes… The brown curves of his neck, shoulder, bicep. His back
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Heart over head

So, says the head, what have we he… Oh, says the heart, it’s so beauti… The one that we want is finally he… Right, nods the head, I can see h… But let’s take a moment to test th…
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Unspoken words

The unspoken words grapple at my t… Searing, swelling up. Tear them out. Clutch them. As you’re clutching me now. Holding them inside is heavy.
Time tells

Hair grows and skin sheds and nail… And still my heart is true Days pass and nights stretch and t… And still my heart wants you Dust settles, wounds heal and scar…
Separation

I feel the warmth of your body holding me in a protective ring. I smell the ironed cleanness of yo… as you pull me closer. As I cling to you, knowing this is the moment
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