Sakura

The pond darkens
to its evening
pattern

of gold koi
and lilies
on black silk

but no
gowned geisha
here

just me

among
the raked white
metaphors

watching
blushed petals
fall

 

 

Stephen Bone‘s work has appeared in magazines in the U.K.and U.S. First collection In The Cinema, published by Playdead Press 2014.