Friday 21 December 2012

I have a new poem on The Week Shall Inherit the Verse

Just in time for the end of the world: my poem "What the Prophecy Could Not Foretell" appears today on Stuart Ross's weekly poem site The Week Shall Inherit the Verse.

This is how it starts:

WHAT THE PROPHECY COULD NOT FORETELL

The new sports set up again in Gaul,
After victory in the Insubrian campaign:
Mountains of Hesperia, the great ones tied and trussed up:
Romania and Spain to tremble with fear.

— Nostradamus
 

That the layoff notice would come
on a Friday. That the palpitations
would be caused by coffee. The inventor
of a childhood protected by monsters
would die of an acute case of ghosts.
There was no warning at all, no signs
in the flight of birds, no dreams
to caution us: the eggs would all be broken,
the Internet slow. ESPN has announced
the new sports set up again in Gaul...

To read the rest of the poem, visit The Week Shall Inherit the Verse