Tim Loveday
Migration
seasonal
migration has lost
its language. birds
commence reverse
flight. head for land
that does not exist.
island holds breath,
throws up sick.
human limbs made
tides rogue whip.
birds circle, cry.
swansong
is choking
sob.
our talk is famous.
when lunged
with death
you were brick.
a witness in
the pyre.
unborn poems
aborted. love
letters mouthed
but never signed.
Tim Loveday is an editor, a poet, a writer, and a clown-lark. His poetry/prose have appeared in The Big Smoke, Literacy learning, Adelaide Review, Quadrant, Meniscus, Cordite, Text Journal, The Big Issue, and Brain drip, among others. He is the content editor at Hyperviolet Designs and the verse editor for The Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion. He currently resides in Hawthorn East, traditional land of the Wurundjeri people.
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