Mark G. Pennington was born 1985 and lives and writes in Kendal, UK. He has poems in TL;DR, Scarlet Leaf Review, Futures Trading, Poetry Super Highway, The Blue Nib, Not Your Mother's Breast Milk and is soon to appear in Poetry Pacific, The Oddville Press, Visions with Voices, Moledro and Cease, Cows. He has also published a first book in 2012, titled Lithium Clockwork under the name J. Rose.

Mark G. Pennington

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The world keeps turning

The shadows poured like oil
Over the side of the curb,
The anorexic, monochrome
Characters: mute actors
Playing interns, lonely
auditions for the absent director.