The Robin’s Last Moments
A sudden sloppy thud. Feathery bundle tumbles past and fluffs on the floor. A robin, quivering. It arches its wings over its body shuddering in a tomb of its own making. Then stillness. A high school boy stares down in disbelief, points downwards. The Porpoise Fattened with plastic and viruses, the porpoise splashed on the Christmas Eve Pacific City sand flapping a fin at distressed walkers, dogs hungry with confusion. The flukes digging the sand – a message mistaken for a desire to return. Volunteers waded up to their waist, pushing the porpoise back out, but she turned back, rolled in by a corrupted instinct and waves washing over and over her, slapping her higher up on the sand where the white lip of foam was stained with corpuscles of plastic. There she lolled, waving us away. The Rhino Pictured on Bahnstrasse in Zurich a life-size metal rhino, in honour of Albert Durer who manipulated the armoured beast into Renaissance imagination. Four hundred years later, there is two white rhinos female left and a few thousand black rhinos, a few hundred Sumatran rhinos. Tourists poach pictures of the metal rhino and saunter on through Durer’s sigh. The rhino remains unmoved. Published in The Brasilia Review, July 2020.
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Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
March 2024
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