Organised by

Guernsey Literary Festival

Sponsored by

Specsavers

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

Sue Proffitt, Devon

Poems on the Buses Exhibition

On 19th March 1915, Pluto was sighted, and photographed, for the first time.

My dark child, my pock-marked changeling,
my waif encased in ice, they’ve spotted you
through their glass eyes, they’ve caught
the smear of your shadow on their lens –
my coldest and last, my echo-ball
who knows me by memory not by light,
they’ve spied you through the night and their voices
are raised – my tiny pulse, my almost-debris,
who pulls on the coat-tails of stars,
hide your face, little death, hide your face.