Bereave
a life bereft, this
is a shut-in’s effigy
burning on the wood
pile of everything
I used to be, my dancing
shoes are gathering
dust in a moth’s light
I’m laughing in my filthy
drunk alley insides
Grant Tarbard has worked as a computer games journalist, a contributor to football fanzines, an editor, a reviewer and an interviewer. He is editor of The Screech Owl. His work can be seen in such magazines as The Rialto, The Journal, Southlight, Sarasvati, Earth Love, Mood Swing, Puff Puff Prose Poetry & Prose, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Playerist 2, Lake City Lights, The Open Mouse, Miracle, Poetry Cornwall, I-70, South Florida Review, Zymbol and Decanto.