When the first star appears
in the chalking evening night between the almost finished green silhouettes of two divine Douglas firs I know poetry. So does the dog huffing with the fever of fetch, an enthusiasm to make gods proud. Two bats swirl around dark statements of tree, bouncing between belief and myth. Hairs on my leg tingle with needling explorers with as much right to needing as the dog who noses the vastness of the grass trying to find his joy. Published in the Tipton Poetry Journal, Fall 2023. issuu.com/tiptonpoetryjournal/docs/tpj58
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You could have lost me,
aged two or maybe three in that pan-flat Norfolk field fattening my chops on strawberries, mouth and chin bloodied, belly stained, fingers ripe with the first taste of freedom foraged from the basket, legs swollen from over- eating - crying mouth stuffed with so much food my fat feet bent inwards - shaded from an autumn sun by reddening under growth, a suburban Lost Boy, baby brother a thin somnambulant rumor that had to be awoken to be fed, I just ate and ate, coloring red from head to hand and heart. Published in New Contrast, 203, Vol. 51, 2023. https://www.newcontrast.net/ |
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), The Paddock Review (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
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