Helen Mort’s first collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus, 2013), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize. Her second, No Map Could Show Them, is forthcoming.
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Scale
My weight is
four whippets,
two Chinese gymnasts,
half a shot-putter.
It can be measured
in bags of sugar, jam jars,
enough feathers for sixty pillows,
or a flock of dead birds
but some days it’s more
than the house, the span
of Blair Athol Road.
I’m the Crooked Spire
warping itself,
doubled...