Jack Little (b. 1987) is a British-Mexican poet, editor and translator based between Bogotá and Mexico City. He is the author of Elsewhere (Eyewear, 2015) and Slow Leaving (Red Squirrel Press, 2022). Jack is the Founding Editor of The Ofi Press.
His letters were spiders, a curve through ‘c’, the snow on Nelson Hill and sledges smashing against the tide of uneven ground, an icy wind stroking my hair as ‘m’ became just one straight line - an Eastern European beach and his smile to strangers, my brother’s namesake invited to play and build sand castles - his ‘n’s, were always rushing. The final line says ‘bacon’, his ‘b’ an ‘h’ his ‘c’, this time, a milk bottle symbol, spilt into memories - a booming laugh. I cultivate words from his tree-bark eyes large and round, wrinkles on his forehead their lines a story slowly becoming my own.