When the Time Comes
When the time comes
bury me in the graveyard
of stillborn, of abandoned projects,
begun with good intentions
and fluttering banners of hope,
left in a litter of bones
in a crush of circumstance,
a hail of lost opportunity
and grieved, each one,
for what might have been,
if only the drum of my efforts
breached the walls of implacability.
- David Ades 2019
David Adès has just moved house (again) and swears (again) that he will NEVER EVER move house (again)! He is the author of Mapping the World, the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal and most recently Afloat in Light (https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/afloat-in-light). David lives (in his latest house) in Beecroft with his wife and three children.
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