[…] Our featured poet this month was a featured writer in the first volume of Sixteen Magazine. Gerry Hanberry has written a deeply affecting poem called Wounds and focuses on the purple colour of a bruise. The poem starts off with the reader believing he or she is possibly reading a love poem but very quickly has the rug pulled under as it descends into the awful experience of domestic abuse. Gerry successfully achieves this without the slightest sense of melodrama and allows the simple words fill the reader with a gasp. Read Gerry’s poem here >> […]
[…] Our featured poet this month was a featured writer in the first volume of Sixteen Magazine. Gerry Hanberry has written a deeply affecting poem called Wounds and focuses on the purple colour of a bruise. The poem starts off with the reader believing he or she is possibly reading a love poem but very quickly has the rug pulled under as it descends into the awful experience of domestic abuse. Gerry successfully achieves this without the slightest sense of melodrama and allows the simple words fill the reader with a gasp. Read Gerry’s poem here >> […]