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The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Intrusion by JP SeabrightEditorial Note by Max WallisIntrusion, JP Seabright’s final poem, is a poem of hypervigilance. Every time the speaker closes their eyes in transit, an imagined attack floods in: the blade, the blood, the bystanders recoiling. The syntax is clipped, cinematic, and refuses to soften at all. The poem loops between shock and self-blame… “If only I hadn’t closed my eyes. / Maybe. / Stopped it somehow” until survival becomes conditional on never resting, never letting go. This is what trauma does. I hugely admire this poem. What cuts deepest is the counterfactual tally: more drinking, more sex, the b...
2025-08-2201 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)effluvium by JP SeabrightEditorial Note by Max Walliseffluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” of scars visible and invisible. The poem asks how a body can betray itself, how flesh becomes record and trigger, “a mutiny of function / over intent.” It is raw, unflinching, refusing to sanitise what survival costs.About the Author:JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled...
2025-08-2100 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Body in Trouble by JP SeabrightEditorial Note by Max WallisIn Body in Trouble, JP Seabright builds a poem from fragments, each line a pressure point. The language glitches, stops short, doubles back: “sinful & skinful,” “pseudolirium,” “negative equity.” Bureaucracy and medicine creep in- “pharmaceutical intervention,” “declaring my deadnames” - until the body is measured like a balance sheet, written down to loss. The repeated question, “who do you talk to,” hammers at the silence around crisis, the way systems isolate even as they claim to treat. What remains is a charged inventory of survival: broken syntax refusing order, a voice splintering but still speaking.Ab...
2025-08-2001 min