Krystelle Bamford has had a handful of poems published in the US and UK, most recently in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of The American Poetry Review. In 2010, she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writers Award and was shortlisted for the 2011 Bridport Prize. Though raised in the States, she now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Summer 2013
The Second Wedding
May this marriage forget the gleam
of rosewood and teak; let it be planed,
joined dovetail, half-lap, tongue-in-groove.