Tuesday, August 11, 2020

New Poetry by David Adès






Imaginings 3

 
When Angel Ivo Garcia
 
pointed to the girl sitting alone
at a table across the square
 
on the island of Samos
 
and said to me, she could be the one 
and you will never know,
 
I stood up, left him
 
with his bottle of retsina,
his tales of loss and grief,
 
his unquenched lust,
 
and walked over to her, 
hand in hand with destiny,
 
never looking back.


- © David Adès 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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