Henry is based in Somerset in the UK. He is a writer of short fiction and poetry with a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Birmingham. He is the author of several poetry collections and his work can be seen in Poetica Review, Pure Slush, Truth Serum Press, Lunate, and O:JA&L, among other places.

H J Bladon

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Punchlines

She made him laugh with her bad punchlines
and her poor knowledge of geography,
added to which there was the way
she threw back her head and let her curls tumble,
and the way she shimmied her hips,

but then there were times like today
when she also made him cry.