Candyfloss looked like heaven
to the sand spiders;
they had been brought up
under the shadow of the pier,
weaned on stories of a pink
paradise where you didn’t even
have to spin your own thread.

Andrew Turner started writing poetry in 2015. To date he has been published in Ink Sweat and Tears,unevenfloor poetry, Obsessed with Pipework and Prole. He is also shortly due to appear in Under The Radar. He lives in Staffordshire and works with young people with learning disabilities.