Today’s choice

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David Van-Cauter

 

 

 

Bats

You are pleased to see me
in my gothic T-shirt –
those bats, you say, have been your friends.

Throughout the months you think you’ve been here,
they have perched above your bed,
protectors,
telling you by sonar, not to fear.

Without them, you tell me,
you would have given up
so many times.

Hard to say
whether the bats have clung to you
or you to them,

but it’s good to have some friends
when your world turns upside down.

 

 

David Van-Cauter’ is a personal tutor based in Hitchin, Herts. This year he was shortlisted in both the Live Canon and Free Verse competitions. His pamphlet Mirror Lake was published by Arenig in 2019 and a new collection is forthcoming.

 

Jennifer A. McGowan 

You have buried your mother and put
a memorial bench on a high hillside where
the wind blows sunsets straight through
and it’s always better to wear something warm.

Lydia Harris

ask this place
ask the silver day
the steady horizon
the self-heal the buttercup
the hard fern in the ditch
ask the bee and the tormentil