Oliver Sedano-Jones

To sunbathe, nude and thin as a lily

To watch the clouds contract in envy

And be okay with life, like a baby is

To be a twiggy, malleable, raw little thing

Always dressing as candy for Daddy

Is a new kind of happiness

Relaxing into the absence round the waist

I’m okay with this now, do you see?

I am so okay

With one foot on the mirror I admire the cured meat

Me and my disease are not friends exactly

But we have an enemy in common

And though I don’t remember life before our estrangement

It is beautiful to feel cheese slices dissolving on the tongue

It is like retiling a soft bathroom

is a British-Peruvian writer. His work has appeared in FLAR, Marathon, and The Northridge Review. He was shortlisted for the Yeats Prize in 2018, the University of Hertfordshire Single Poem Prize in 2019, and the Wales Poetry Award in 2020.