Melissa Knox Evans

Melissa Knox Evans lives and works in Oxford UK. Her poetry has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in New York Quarterly, Barzakh Magazine, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Broad River Review, Inklette, Equinox Journal, the TORCH Anthology, A Tapestry of Homes, and elsewhere. She holds a BA English Literature from Oxford Brookes University.

the breathing sea or autotrophic wanderers

for us so much rests on them resting upon the ocean’s surface— their silent gauzes seeking & capturing light flimsy lung of the currents cut carbons cirrus sea creatures synthesising every second breath some gleam like milk-toned jewels— diatomic each borne in unfair halves which cradle each other tightly but gently enough tiny openings for growth & with growth their… Read more →