Our first compilation incorporated music, images and poetry around the theme animals. We were thrilled to include this wonderfully surreal poem by Heather Holcroft-Pinn.
We’ve just put out a physical copy of the compilation including photos of the artwork and a handmade booklet. Available here. All proceeds to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
Image by Jessie Jermyn.
Land of Cats
In dreams,
I fall into a land of cats,
who fill streets of empty houses.
Familiar silhouettes
in open windows,
the pavements strewn
with squirms of tails,
flicking away
from my foot-stumble.
Curving spines,
licking against shins;
and the noise –
each corner mewling,
soft-footed jumping,
landing, rain-patter about me.
They follow me
in a great tumult,
a sinew river, flowing evenly onwards.
Until I choose to lie down
and the cats pool about me,
and climb up to sit close,
filling the hollow between breast and rib;
their silken limbs, exploring, settling,
their fur claiming every inch
of body, buried in the warmth of bodies;
until it all fades darkly
into one dear and deafening purr.
Heather Holcroft-Pinn
Castle Cooperative Records 