Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism. His novels have been translated into ten languages. He is the author of Cuddy, The Gallows Pole, The Offing, The Perfect Golden Circle, Male Tears and many more.
And now the animals are braying in the burning stable
and scorched birds plummet from the sky.
You no longer stoop to lift the gasping fish,
stranded, beached on the gravel bank,
nor falter s a foam tide brings bubbling blood,
and shrieking shapes cross the ruined sun.
You are lost in the lie of your life now.
Perhaps you were only ever a rumour of a person-
a few good lines, scratched across the page like fresh scars.
A butterfly trapped in a childhood jam jar.
You are: wet kindling, green smoke, a dead jellyfish;
your mother's son and your father's daughter, all fiction.
So say farewell, then, in these dying days of April,
a thin string of hollow words your worthless legacy
as you drop the final mask and make your mark on the map
sealed beneath rotting boards, a self, all out at sea.
Sayfa 222 - This was the end. Thanx Romy·Kitabı okudu