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.
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.