Section 03 · 11 entries
No metaphor doing a fact's job.
A weighbridge ticket. A boot heel. The end piece of the loaf, salted, still warm. Spare lines about labour, exile and survival, entered so that someone later cannot say it was not written down. Every poem is free to read in full.
- Bread and BreathA witness poem by Josef Hammer. A woman kneading before light, the end piece shared out still warm, and the cracks in her knuckles.
- Heel Lands HardA witness poem by Josef Hammer. Salt on the door mat, a threaded button, a needle that sinks then checks, and the night clamping home.
- The Switch Drops HomeA witness poem by Josef Hammer. An overtime slip folded into a glove, a mended uniform seam, a prepay meter showing red, and the last of the heat.
- Lockout on the LandingA witness poem by Josef Hammer. A rent card laid flat, a meter at zero credit, a boiler lockout code, and a valve that stays shut.
- Red Light ArchiveRead Red Light Archive, a three-line witness poem by Josef Hammer. A door pulled in, a latch, and the sound a fixed penalty makes. Free to read in full.
- The Spectacle's Red LightA witness poem by Josef Hammer. A red diode on the landing, a Section 21 folded on the hall radiator, and rage billed back to the tenant.
- Cache of a WomanA witness poem by Josef Hammer. A fall measured across a sill, a hairline opening at the arris, and a sleeping bag that covers the shoes.
- Case File: Civil StatusA witness poem by Josef Hammer built from legal articles: the head of the house, the father's signature, and one-half a son.
- Girls of TomorrowA witness poem by Josef Hammer. Grit stamped into a threshold, heel wear rounding the kerb, and the load path a street quietly alters.
- Still AliveA witness poem by Josef Hammer. Sodium light on stairwell tiles, a lapsed inspection tag, and a list of what can be carried.
- The Shift's True LedgerA witness poem by Josef Hammer written as a docket: batch numbers, a weighbridge ticket, gloves in size XS, nine respirators stamped deficient.