soundstream
cicadas
screeching
in
the
night
a
sound
stream
falling
to a
river
winding
to a
southern
sea
mud
bubbling
in
the
es
tu
a
ry
as
slow
ly
sleep
comes
Nick Carding‘s poetry and short fiction has appeared online and in print in the UK – most recently in ink sweat and tears and Orbis – as well as in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.