Arcane these halls, wherein these walls
the pomp and thrills
shroud the lack of clarity;
where the right to a voice
and the order of bills
denotes a lack of legal parity.
2019, the 29th of January,
each motion falls, well, almost all;
one strange one is given charity.
Hopes of extension are lost;
no breathing space
to find out what is real
or to replace 600 or more laws
leaving Europe will displace.
The promised date of another meaningful
Parliamentary ballot,
or the sequence of the day’s amendments
defines how those amendments fall.
The backstop;
which, after over two years
writing between red lines
we’re promised,
against all past assurances
will be redefined;
the nebulousness called ‘alternative arrangements’ this time.
Not for the first time
we all ask what just happened;
to what are we consigned?
In these arcane processes
can you hear
nations unite
around the cruxes
as common sense cries out
and people turn from left to right
to ask the question of 2019;
what does ‘alternative arrangements’ mean?
Antonia Sara Zenkevitch
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Word-weaver and artist. I'm Co-founder of Nott Normal; a Nottinghamshire based independent accessible, adaptive and gently provocative arts collaboration. Resident story-weaver for set of virtual Cottage in the Woods courses by Yelala from late autumn 2020, early Spring 2021. My writing and art have recently been part of Poems on Prescription, the National Museum of Justice's (UK) acclaimed Letters of Restraint, and The National Holocaust Memorial Centre's (UK) What is Testimony? Art and written work has appeared in various independent publications including LeftLion, Miknaf Haaretz, and Proliterat. I'm a warrior of various disabilities and chronic illnesses with an MA in Human Security (Peace and Human Development). I've worked in creative conflict resolution, sustainability & interfaith work. I stood for parliament (& local gov) in 2015, getting 9.9%, in the top 20 national results for the party. I've since left politics unless you count negotiating between three cats and a laptop. I love animals, my favourite humans, wild landscapes, accessible cities and the sea.
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