Neuro Logical
Parenting - Hannah Newell
Parenting is a pen,
an old-fashioned one that leaks
where the ink goes in.
It doesn’t come
with a rubber on the end
but you can cross things out.
Close cross-hatching with
lots of scribbles
is not as neat but
one straight line through
can leave it still
legible.
Bio:
Hannah Newell is a poet from the UK. She read a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Kent where she wrote and directed a play called Snapshots of Young Love, worked with a literary journal called Banquet and won the Tongue Tied award for spoken poetry. Now she works in homelessness, has two little girls. Words in Sledgehammer lit, Censorship Magazine, Mark Literary Review and Lickety Split journal