Published in Latitudes & Attitudes, Winter Issue, 2021, pp. 107 The first puff of a southerly hits my face like a promise. I squint into the darkness, spy a wind-line on the water. The termination of the mirrored sea, as abrupt as if it had never existed. The headsail shivers, curls inward and snaps backContinue reading “Storms, Straits and Sulphides: A Yacht Delivery on the Australian East Coast”
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Better the Bear You Can See
I see the grizzly before it sees me; an immense, oblong shape, joints sliding beneath fur at the four corners of its back as it advances down the hill. It glides over uneven ground…
A Death in the Rain
When I die, let it rain. I have always wanted to die when rain is all can be heard. When water pours like glass beads from heavenly hands, and stands among terraced trees, and spills down grassy lanes, and gathers like birds on a windowsill, tap-tapping the panes. When I die, let it rain. SometimesContinue reading “A Death in the Rain”
Run On
Bells are ringing if only in my mind, Eyes closed, are you sleeping? Designed and refined, now all left behind, Life defined by leaving. Wind is blowing along the hollow lane, No more happy panting. A gentle touch beneath the fur; no pain To quiet your prancing. Water is filling the holes in the lawn,Continue reading “Run On”
Mathew Channer 