Pocket Notes
Most pockets were originally created to hold a specific item; a timepiece, a shot bird. To use the pocket on...
Fiction
Tender Buttons
What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line...
Pyjama Shirt
I started going round to his for dinner at the end of autumn, when the leaves were on the point...
String Theory Sutra
In writing of experience or beauty, a cloth emerges as if made from a twin existence. It’s July 4: air...
The New Dress
But she dared not look in the glass. She could not face the whole horror – the pale yellow, idiotically...
Layers
Some days she flicks through the clothes hangers but finds nothing to wear. She doesn’t find it because she does...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Bending over she found one of the braids of Marjorie's hair, followed it up with her hand to the point...
Gold Collar
Veronica Martin's 'Gold Collar' is about things. The things on our bodies and in our spaces and the intimate distance...
Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown
Why didn’t I keep it? It was used to me and I was used to it. It molded all the...
Outfits
Your face is pale, contours chalked out like anatomy was just a malleable paste: a blank canvas ready for Jackson...
Tony Takitani
Size-2 shadows of his wife hung there in long rows, layer upon layer, as if someone had gathered and hung...
Garderobe
A delicate and illustrative poem by Veronica Martin, exploring the fictive potential for fashion in literature, accompanied by images by...