New Writing: Celestial Springfield By Vahni Capildeo

Taken from Clinic's brilliant Can I Borrow A Feeling? — an anthology of Simpsons poetry and artwork — new writing this week comes from Vahni Capildeo, alongside an illustration by Katie Johnston

CELESTIAL SPRINGFIELD


We are.

We are the heavens.

We are the heavens that open.

We are the heavens that open the show.

Know

            we are

                        THE CLOUDS.

No. Not the clowns. Not the crowds.

We are the dirt-white clouds, the popcorn-gold

cracked crowns you likely never noticed; yet

whatever else the Simpsonsverse may hold

of cool pollution first stirred in snot-wet

downpours of our acid fancy: blue hair,

sky-scraper; Maggie’s drool; yea, Homer’s beer…

Can I Borrow A Feeling is out now, available to order directly from Clinic

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