Forgiveness

clay-sifting one
wellyboot year
to make him the
pizza oven, I was
forgiven, wading
through the midges
encrusted with sun-

light sifting leaves
& I seven or eight
scoured the bank
in slow flow fingers
freeze beachspade
hefted mud-slick
knees, gracious.

 

 

Caspar Bryant is a poet from West Cornwall. Their work can be found in SPAM zine, Broken Sleep, and Propel Magazine. He currently lives in Fife.