New Poetry by David Ades

The Upside to Being Down

  

The Ferris Wheel circles

through vibrating air,

rising into skylines,

into harbours and cityscapes,

into puzzles of sky and cloud,

caught in a jigsaw of

steel cables and rocking carriages,

moods dissipating

like burnt off fog,

children rising into laughter:

and the day holds so much more

in the palm of its opened hand.

- David Ades 2015

David Ades is a poet and short story writer. His poems have appeared in many Australian and American literary publications. Since April 2011 David has been living in Pittsburgh where he was one of the editors of the inaugural Australian Poetry Members Anthology metabolism.