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