Georgie Bailey (London-Bordon, East Hampshire, UK)
We’re low on bleach,
can you water the plants?
Last night I dreamt people
never lose things.
We used to be good at
never finishing, always finding
new links with laughter
oozing through our veins,
filling up our lungs like blood
in saltwater, completing us.
We woke up on the beach,
parched, depleted.
We’re the rocks that look
like wandering islands,
no boat, far from shore.
Georgie Bailey is a multi-award-winning working-class writer, who is an alumnus of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s MA Dramatic Writing, Oxford Playhouse’s Playmaker Scheme and Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab. His play TETHERED won Innovative Play at the 2021 London Pub Theatre Awards. Georgie is the Artistic Director of ChewBoy Productions. His works have appeared in the Trouvaille Review, Lake Poetry, Ropes Literary Journal and Horizon Magazine to name a few, and as been shortlisted for multiple prizes.
