iguana days

 

hanging

over grey waves

the old yellow

dog of a moon, pock-

marked & smiling

like tomorrow. i go

to horizons

& check the time

 

i don’t sail

the way of charts & stars

but follow crests

like lizards

know where they are

 

 

 

 

 

Reuben Woolley has been published in Tears in the Fence, and Domestic Cherry 4. He has been published online in The Stare’s Nest, Ink Sweat and Tears, Nutshells and Nuggets, Bone Orchard Poetry and the Screech Owl. His first collection, the king is dead was published in 2014 by Oneiros Books. He edits the blogzine of poetry and art about protest and abuse, I am not a silent poet: iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com