Unrequited Love
written by: Natalie Crick
My kiss has slipped off
Like a dress.
It unpeels itself, a gift.
Trees unfurl their branches,
Limbs of whor...
Silk
written by: Natalie Crick
The houses are frozen,
Caked with white ice
In the eternal half-light
Of a full moon Winter night,
The wind a piercin...
Fresh Rain
written by: Natalie Crick
Fresh rain fell
Onto velvet skin
Beneath an open sky.
I seek shelter in you.
Every stranger
Becomes a ghost pas...
Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in English Literature and plans to pursue an MA at Newcastle this year. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in a range of journals and magazines including The Lake, Ink Sweat and Tears, Poetry Pacific, Interpreters House and Jet Fuel Review. Her work also features or is forthcoming in a number of anthologies, including Lehigh Valley Vanguard Collections 13. This year her poem, 'Sunday School' was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.