New Poetry by David Adès

The Continuous Ephemeral 

 

Even though a multitude of poetry books — 

dog-eared, thumbed, hauled from place to place — 

 

stayed with me a good, long while 

 

and there were loves and friendships along the way, 

I possessed nothing that I sought or thought to possess, 

 

save for the thought of possession that, too, departed,  

 

another echo sounding in the vault of the dead, 

the lost, coins falling through the holes in my pockets. 

- © David Adès 2021

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 (extended into 2021 due to Covid) together with Michelle Cahill, Debbie Lim and Michelle Hamadache.