HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Green Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some writers and artists who’d sent in work the chance to be published here on the website. Keep an eye on our social media for more great work like this, now that The Green Issue print magazine has been released! (For more information or to purchase your copy, visit our shop.)
Paul Noirecombe
Treasure Box In Case of General Collapse
1. tree buds of all sorts
2. shiny pebbles & fossils
3. oak leaves
4. grandpa’s rusty pocketknife
5. your yellow hair
6. countless rotten things
7. my grief
8. no seashells
9. a few dried mushrooms
10. a couple of green tits if I’m
lucky
11. the wind in the emerald firs
above Blackhill at night
when no one else is around.
Paul Noirecombe is a young poet living in Besançon, France. After having completed a master degree in English Literature, he co-founded a “poetic tandem” called Les Bourgeons Circulaires (The Circular Buds) which proposes public readings of local and international poetry.