Summer: an ellipsis
The Armageddon weather,
pervasive, the hot winds,
thunderstorm clouds
perdurant in each octant,
the nights tease away sleep: dreamy
reconciliation fills a plastic,
disposable shopping bag
lifting over backyard fences;
grit lands in the eyes
of all sinner pedestrians.
I cannot see straight
and that angers me,
I only have eyes for my ego;
hope watches a car-crash,
it's a voyeur crossing police tape
wanting action, baby -
looks for a body, looks for blood
moans that it's hungry, thirsty;
comes too early, grunting, falls
away, the psychopath.
- Ben Hession 2017
Ben Hession is a Wollongong based writer. His poetry has been published by Eureka Street, the International Chinese Language Forum, the Cordite Poetry Review, Verity La and the Mascara Literary Review, as well as the Live Poets anthology Can I Tell You A Secret? Ben's poem, A Song of Numbers, was shortlisted for the 2013 Australian Poetry Science Poetry award. Ben is also a music journalist and is involved with community broadcasting.
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