It’s this thing about…
A cat retching to furball
the line about the moon turning to salt
Caught on the barb wire of memory
That bent 1871 penny
you know the one with the punch hole
The over worn leather strip fraying to itch
Where the cable car jumps and starts
in the flirtation of a blinding dazzle
A wobbly sentence lost to dawn walking
When the bird spoke to you only you
of the metamorphic curving horizon
In the gliding tucked hope of home
James Walton is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers. He is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Poetry Prize, the MPU International Poetry Prize, The James Tate Prize, and the Ada Cambridge Prize and is a winner of the Raw Art Review Chapbook prize. He was nominated for ‘The Best of the Net’ 2019, and again for 25/26/27, and is a Pushcart Prize 2021/22/23/24/26/27 nominee.
