Angela Leighton is a senior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has written numerous scholarly works, including On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. In addition Leighton has published three volumes of poetry, A Cold Spell, Sea Level, and The Messages (2012).

Gecko

An iPoem

by Angela Leighton

A sudden comma commandeered by feet,
splayed toes adhesive on a whitewashed wall,
miniature stuntman, sticker, ghost-tattoo,

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