Poem
PREMONITION
by
Nick Carding
Beside me still
you are the tide on my shore,
sometimes receding,
stranding shells,
detritus of all the years
of our carelessness,
sometimes rising,
flood of the cares and tears
in the caves of our memory,
their crash against gravel
at once our history
and the premonition
of its resolution.
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Nick Carding is a Brit who's been hiding in The Netherlands for the past ten years. Married to an itinerant Croat, he escapes south with her as often as he can - but not often enough for his liking.
These days he doesn't often submit - but in the past his work has been published in the UK, USA, Canada, Croatia, Australia and New Zealand.
You can contact him at carding@xs4all.nl