Sarah Crewe is a working class feminist psychogeographical poet. Her first collection floss is published by Aquifer Press. Her poem “the german sisters” was written for a screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film as part of The Spirit of Liverpool: Reclaiming Women’s Histories Through Film.
start start now start with the ways in which
you resemble yr sister concrete
bipeds chestnut a leftist persuasion
aversion to motherhood a shared
sickness the rehabilitation
of the german psyche the guilt trips
corrode an anti propaganda
this is yr past this is who you are
a strange pair of sisters congealed
coffee tops jumper swaps circular
panopticon the all seeing all
knowing intuitive bond between
the headstands headstrong but different shapes
pliable morphing capacity
short and scratchy flies around a corpse
around yr sister triangular
the whites of yr eyes the whites of the
shroud wrapped tight a sailor’s knot a noose
incontrovertible determined
to prove otherwise maybe this is
what we do with our sisters concoct
a version of time of self of her
a dionysian daddy’s girl
a master of intrigue and heartstrings
classmate at the bottom of the cross
oh won’t you write about yr sister?
the core of all hurt crux of all fault
distorted image distorted footage
stripped back back in box deine schwester
incredible bone structure the face
of an angel you’ll never see a
face like that again here is a crash
test dummy of my sister hold the
front page typeset begin now begin
