Her plane a diminishing speck

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He considers alcohol a meal,

thoughts jostling, beach deserted, tide ebbed.

Eating alone having no appeal

he considers alcohol a meal

despite crayfish, trapped, weighting his creel.

His mistakes, her reasons, their wrongs, webbed,

he considers alcohol a meal,

thoughts jostling, beach deserted, tide ebbed.

 

Ian C Smith’s work has been published in Antipodes, BBC Radio 4 Sounds, The Dalhousie Review, Griffith Review, San Pedro River Review, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book and Two Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.

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