New Poetry by David Ades

As for Serendipity…

In the grand scheme of things
despite whatever notions we cling to

there is no grand scheme of things:

just randomness and chance,
accidents of history and birth

determining poverty or posterity

violence or calm, danger or safety,
and what we can make of them

if given any chance at all

as millions of hidden cogs
grind each of us slowly forward

to whatever indifferent future awaits us.


- © David Ades 2020

David Adès 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). In association with Mascara Literary Review, David is a recipient of the 2020 Don Bank Writing Residence together with Michelle Cahill, Debbie Lim and Michelle Hamadache

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