Unrequited forester contrite with sunrise by James Walton

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Unrequited forester contrite with sunrise

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still smouldering

with interred lightning

this tempered wilderness

.

life drawings of fire

dance in alphabet

.

hills make charcoal

smudge the outlines

saltpetre heathen tongues

.

peel back these veins

as gut for flamenco

.

in the valleys now

courts the dragon

eludes the celibate dawn

.

will your heart match

the wing flap

.

seek without shame

and make fertile

this ear drum’s beat

.

cast lots along the razorback

to such unending desire

.

this true name

can only be spoken

by counting years aloud

.

into any inferno

I will call them out

.

wanting to hear

all you have again

in a quickened reprise

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James Walton is an award winning poet published in many journals and anthologies, short listed twice for the ACU national Literature Prize, a double prize winner in the MPU International Poetry Prize, and Specially Commended in The Welsh Poetry Competition

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