STRAY BLOOD

Angela Arnold

Just a speck

on the pavement,

a small splatter of life

lost in passing. Nose

gushing? Something

suffered in haste?

At somebody's              

hands? Stray blood

left for all now

to gather up

with anxious eyes,

in our same hot-

pulse heads:

the red stuff

that is one sea,

one blood, after all,

calling to us

to own it.

Author Bio

Angela Arnold has had her poetry published widely in print magazines as well as online, in the UK and elsewhere. Her poems have also been included in anthologies produced by Templar, Frogmore Press, Eyewear, Arachne Press and others, including the The Best of new British and Irish Poets 2019-2021. 

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