ISSUE 48
August 2010

Christopher Crawford

 

Christopher Crawford was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His poetry, fiction, and translations have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Evergreen Review, Ekleksographia, The Prague Revue, Rakish Angel, and OVS Magazine. He lives in the Czech Republic.

Letter to Self from Deathbed    

A sea swells somewhere
beyond your white room.
A blood-orange sun burns low on the water
and sears the circling gulls who cut the air.

Yet this sun is on you too.
Past the skin.
It is of you: it is you.

The sharp, ridiculous pain
of needles: far away, quiet.
A deep slow pain turns you in its hands
like Mother with infant.

Close by, the sea shifts again,
the sun melts
and the gulls skim so low they seem as one
with the indigo-black of the water.

Only Mothers remain.
The Mother of Night comes.

It's night.
People catch aeroplanes,
a man buys a postcard somewhere.






 

 

Christopher Crawford: Poetry
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