Author: Laura Monaghan

By Laura Monaghan You’re primed on how to plate yourself, from the womb you’re on display. Warned that the last treat left on the shelf, is the first one thrown away. With savage hands they crack you open, your shell, a brittle shield. The tender yolk of you spills golden, too raw to hold, you […]

Childhood summers full of gap-toothed grins,   full up bellies and orange juice dripping down our chins.  Afternoons spent playing ‘til the sun dropped low,  as kids, fun and games are all we know.   Then, winter seeps into our sky, scaring away the sun.   The cold ice there to signify the age of innocence now done.   Shrugged on, like […]