Isabel Galleymore Isabel Galleymore is the author of Significant Other. She is the Walter Jackson Bate fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute 2022-23 and associate professor of creative writing at the University of Birmingham, U.K.

Semi-Unintelligible | Poetry

Isabel Galleymore

  Restless with deserving, I’d bought myself a kitten. Semi-unintelligible, she was primed for fable. I could caption her with anything. Though mostly what I wanted was to dress her as a lion. If you like this, then you’ll like that ads frequently addressed me — and I knew it to be true — my lungs forever doting on this specific breath, only to swiftly discard it for the next...