Poem - Soon on Cordite - Warning to the Gambler

After a long hiatus and many rejections, I can finally add my second publication for 2012 to my list. Warning to the Gambler will appear in Cordite Poetry Review - Jackpot issue #39. Here's a PREVIEW. Check out the PUBLICATION of my poem at Cordite Poetry Review Editor: Samuel Wagan Watson. Warning to the Gambler The way in is through thick double doors, between...

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Poem for the Day - Catastrophe - a storm poem

Catastrophe We await the path of the storm Thunder barks overhead like the dog Next door. She’s up, wailing her grief When no-one’s home The evening groans on Without lights, the kettle’s usurped for the gas’s Slow metabolic rate We don’t recognize the path of this cyclone Never having one this far Sporadic winds whip and the neighbour’s Fence is no longer a division The roads are physical coatings of debris What turns up when the...

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