New Poetry by David Ades

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.