And lo it came to pass
Maria S. Mendes
And lo it came to pass
that he left his spare
phone charger
plugged into the socket
above my bed
and by this sign
I understood
his feelings ran deep
and he would return.
Lorraine Mariner
Lorraine Mariner has published two collections with Picador, Furniture (2009) and There Will Be No More Nonsense (2014) and works as a librarian at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London. She has edited two anthologies for Candlestick Press, Ten Poems About Tea and Ten Poems About Friendship.