Ryan Ormonde

content note: hospitals

It was a relief to strip back the kitchen,

and a surprise to see bare, hard walls.

It really was a room after all, not so seething;

whatever horrors were discovered in the layers

were now dispersed. They do this in hospital too:

you really are a body with known behaviours,

or at least their best guess, and the nurses have

seen it all before, they’ve seen it all before.

is a poet from London. In the last year, he has contributed a poem to the first online issue of SPAM Magazine, and collaborated on two short poetry films, one with poet Karen Sandhu for Magma, and the other with artist Madalina Zaharia.