Reaping the Whirlwind
headlit rain-wind detonates on tarmac
stings our faces lashes our ears
batters our legs like breakers
from a long Atlantic swell
it souses heavy coats like tissue
snatches our bellowed madness
we scurry for shelter
fools caught in Lear’s raging grief
naked in our wind-sown storm
William Bonar’s pamphlet, Offering (Red Squirrel Press, 2015), won the James Kirkton Memorial Prize. His first full collection, The Stuff of the Earth will be published by Red Squirrel Press in Autumn 2020.