August austere
the sodden waste
and its looming dune
Lurching and heaving
Lurching and heaving and sunless
and visited only once.
Rivet. Panel. Wing.
She soars on
beneath the world
swaying there alone
to lurch and heave
as she sprawls
the unknown
Nicholas is a writer and corporate language trainer in Johannesburg, South Africa. His poetry focuses on the grim finalities implied by agency; the way in which every conscious decision slams shut entire worlds of possibility.
He is a) Agile b) Perspicacious c) Remorseless d) None of the above.