KAPU LEWIS

Translation

What is love?

an egg
under my fingerpads
weighty textured

I’ve heard
volumes hide inside
this Library of Babel

I strike it
against the kitchen sink
the iron bedstead

but it will not open
with needle or Subtle Knife
this embryo of a different life

but if love were the moon
I could bathe in its milk
like the undertows that pull me

dark basins
uncharted oceans
would speak

and I could finally listen

Kapu Lewis is an emerging Welsh writer and poet, working in the TV and film industry and studying for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, UK. She is interested in exploring mental health and Autism through prose and poetry.

Her work has been published by the indie press and in literary journals including Epoque Press, Erro Press, MIROnline, The Menteur, and Handwritten & Co, an Asian literary journal.

She can be followed on social media at:

Threads – @kapulewis
Twitter X – @kapulewis
Instagram – @kapulewis