Great to see two of my poems published on Michael Dickel’s Meta/Phor(e)/Play and accompanied by his excellent images.
coralled gates the trees no more
Reuben Woolley
for the Great Barrier Reef, officially declared dead after 25 million years
coloured birds don’t fly here not even & a dry time we have white a forest moves no longer no birds no song
coloured
birds don’t fly here
rust & old machines
Reuben Woolley
here we fall
the same
the stories
of
strange.their shining
faces broken
now / feel
the opening
the silent doors
on doors unfold
it’s time
to haul out
our lost pieces
our histories
of shattered shell.come
to it then
& in our dreaming
Reuben Woolley has been published in various magazines including Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House, Domestic Cherry, The Stare’s Nest and Ink Sweat and Tears. His collection, the king is dead was published in 2014 with Oneiros Books and a chapbook, dying notes
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