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ANNA STEWARD 

Anna Steward was born in the West Midlands in 1982. Many years later, in the Autumn of her eighteenth year she got her first visa stamp, and has been collecting them ever since, spending much of her adult life working in South-East Asia. However, she is currently staying put to do the Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia.

LOCUST

(Exodus 10:12)

Place your hand on inches of land

Hoover black over an atlas map.

While winds bend grasses back

Durian fruits fall across Vietnam.

Hatching has occurred near the delta

Where rains fall through the night.

Banks of clouds hail swarms

Of locusts, black arrow down. This,

This is some other sky

Where white ants burrow

In conical mounds as salty

As the cu chi tunnels are orderly.

OWED

Oh Debi, idle while

Fingers stretch down

the pitch of your black

strip, my

SIGNATURE

Tattoo, on your back

rushed like everything

We ever did

I took you everywhere

And everywhere

                                                            This card may be used

I used you.

Only                                                    

By the named card Holder

                                                            For Lost

or stolen cards

                                                            Please call

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