(2018) Writer’s Block

Published in Mark Tredinnick, editor, NV Anthology 3, the third collection of poems of the ‘New Voices’ poetry group, Richmond Publishing,  Sydney, 2018, p. 14.

The book in which appeared the poems: ‘Promise’, ‘Who Were You?’, ‘A Peculiar English Christmas’, and  ‘Writer’s Block’.

Between words: 
Suspended 
Like a gull’s wing 
Cupping the wind 
Before the bird 
As if in thought 
Swoops and snatches  
A morsel in 
Casual vigour. 
Hungry for more  
Soaring high  
To catch in awful 
Surprise another  
Piece scooped from 
the sky.