Bitter orange @ 2 am

July 25, 2023

 

The halfmoon cruelly glowers
a chiascuro profile in the smist
(cool air dulled by heavy smoke)
that wafts upslope from the
campfires of misguided tourists
travelling to the 6th extinction
while notifications ping phones
across the sleepless valley.

 

 

Linda Adair

Linda Adair is a poet, writer, publisher and a co-editor of Rochford Street Review an online journal. Her first chapbook is being published later this year by Melbourne Poets Union and my work has been included in the Puncher & Wattman anthology To End All Wars, the magazines Social Alternatives, & P76, online journals such as Bluepepper, Meusse, as well as being part of Project 366.

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