The Commonplace The jar will long retain the fragrance of what it was steeped in when new. Horace They're there in every shipwreck, every trench, stacked in serried ranks or shattered by some trauma in the past that whispers in the ear, the way the thumb prints round the rim speak volumes lost but … Continue reading A poem by Brian Johnstone
Month: February 2013
‘Koi Pond’ by Robert Peake
Koi Pond in memoriam K.J. I went to pay a visit to the koi, to see what they thought of my life, and how I had been living it. Beneath the imperturbable surface, they mouthed the words, saying "bleb" and "bleb" and "bleb." Some torpedoed, others swung a lazy fin, like an oarsman, turning … Continue reading ‘Koi Pond’ by Robert Peake
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