‘Peeling: Creme Egg’ by Colin Dardis

You must perform
the Dance of the Single Veil

before you can enjoy, consider
that foil container, rickety shell
between fingers and chocolate.

Find the fault line, that schism
of gateway and beckoning.

Hear the egg’s allure
whisper behind its cloak.
As you tease, softly tweeze

the edge of the world
away from its dark continent.

Maintain that tectonic shift
without quaking, free of slip,
blip or crippled landscape.

From issue #6: spring/summer 2018

About the Author
Colin Dardis is a poet, editor and arts facilitator from Northern Ireland. A recipient of the Artist Career Enhancement Scheme from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, his work has been widely published. One of Eyewear Publishing’s Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, a collection with Eyewear, the x of y, was published in 2018.