Colin Simms

Colin Simms’s collections include Otters and Martens and Gyrfalcon Poems. A new, expanded version of Afghan Poems will be published this year.

Two Poems

Colin Simms, 24 April 2008

Sami in their tipis (‘Hilpes’?) Finmark in the fifties thick skin patched with thin skin needle holes under flaps pantiled almost a proggy, with the same skill as waterproof as my ‘Ventile’ more windproof than the Grenfell

why is no skin scorched within? the vent is canted with the wind by adjusting its poles with the breath of the outside, the fire on the inside the...

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