A great online magazine to read and submit your writing to…..I have a couple of poems there this month…
The Haunted Sky
by Peter King
Waiting Room
by Peter King
Waiting is filled with silence;
one drop slides down the smooth side,
hesitates before it’s sucked beneath
the incurved marble base.
There is bustle and commotion all around,
but it’s absorbed and nullified,
leaves not a ripple in the syrup
of the silent vessel, not a trace.
Even when the waiting’s overset –
a clumsy jog of someone’s
shoulder, maybe – it is slow to empty,
silence spreading out in sticky lace.
An insect, small and iridescent,
slow to see its danger, struggles
in the unexpected flood, antennae waving,
silence setting it eternally in place.
Black Hole
by Peter King
Beyond the armoured glass
its metal shutters now drawn back,
I stare at vacum.
The stars are brighter than
I’ve ever seen – but I don’t
see them now, nor my reflection,
nor the ghostly cabin at my back.
And when…
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