Night
Night falls too early now
Birds fold themselves up
Like faded Christmas cards
Clocks speed up their complaining
Cars creep towards home
Fog like a smokers’ cough
Friends leave through the open door
Coats and scarves are left behind
The beach washed clear of footprints
We wait in darkened rooms
Voices calling in the distance
A choir of galloping angels
- John Bartlett 2017
John Bartlett‘s non-fiction and essays have been widely published and will be collated into an e-book entitled A Tiny and Brilliant Light to be released in November 2017. He is the author of two novels, Towards a Distant Sea and Estuary and a collection of short stories, All Mortal Flesh.He blogs regularly at: http://beyondtheestuary.com/
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