Over The Edge
Over The Edge
Holland Park Press (UK),
2023
88 pages
ISBN 978-1-907320-99-6
sample - THIS MUST BE HEAVEN
This Must Be Heaven
Death I understand: my flesh rejoins the universe
like sea water escaping a cracked amphora.
The way, they say, I inhale molecules breathed out
by Jesus. Another kind of resurrection.
But how did I get here in the first place?
A little wanderer, in what green room was I waiting to come on stage? In what bardo antechamber awaiting summons, like a quantum particle kept in suspense (there) (not there)? Or, washing ashore from fathomless depths, laughing and crying with my first breath.
And where did these luscious figs come from?