Driving country roads,
killing moths like hailstones.
Place names like the kisses
time pushed to the corners
of lips; the places
it still hurts when it hits.
[from the forthcoming collection In and Out of Love Poems]
Jenny Cleland has had poetry published by Juju, FourXFour, Time In, Freckle Magazine and Rancid Idols. Her first chapbook “Belonging to Myself” was published by Pen Points Press in 2016, the same year that she won the Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam.