The Wonderful Everyday

by Anthony Tomkins

I built an IKEA settee for us both 

to fall through. 

Its slats won’t hold this conversation.

We will collapse and 

watch a filament of wood glue 

flow between us.


We’ll tumble through splinters and joists 

in an flatpack dreamworld. 

Lingonberry syrup, wax succulents and daim will

mark a path to the allen keys, 


I’d like to watch them turn into space with you, just

one more time. 

Anthony Tomkins is a PhD researcher at the University of York, working on addiction narratives. He writes about the hills, flats and plains of his Brecon Beacons home and other equally magical things. He is an enthusiastically average runner and cook and his poetry can be read in Amethyst Review, Dreich and Carmen Et Error.