Accidental Geometries

Written By Victoria Spires

I think of trains, all these people leaving 

themselves in brief windows. 



                                      How some ascensions are linear. 



                                                                       I am a dream landscape, bisected by metal corridors. 



                                      I am a corridor, bisected by metal landscapes. 



I am a landscape, bisected by dreams. 



                                                                      When I arrive, I am in a different place.

Victoria Spires lives in Northampton. Her poems scribble in the margins of overheard ideas, nature, motherhood, and desire. She has been published in Berlin Lit, Suburban Witchcraft, Wildscape Lit, Ghost City Review, and Dust, among others. She was commended in the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024 and the Poet’s Workshop Poetry Prize 2025 and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award. She is also a contributing editor at The Winged Moon. When she is not writing, she can be found running or crouching down looking at something interesting.

Victoria Spires

Victoria Spires lives in Northampton. Her poems scribble in the margins of overheard ideas, nature, motherhood, and desire. She has been published in Berlin Lit, Suburban Witchcraft, Wildscape Lit, Ghost City Review, and Dust, among others. She was commended in the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024 and the Poet’s Workshop Poetry Prize 2025 and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award. She is also a contributing editor at The Winged Moon. When she is not writing, she can be found running or crouching down looking at something interesting.

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