Author name: Rattle

An Act of Sabotage

Rattle / November 24, 2023

Because I was young and heretical
(I wanted to be a radical) I spiked
trees to save them. This, I was told,
was the right thing to do: each tree
found with a spike ruins the forest
around it. It wasn’t true, of course.

Arthur Lawrence, Audio, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Poems

The Addiction Bird

Rattle / November 23, 2023

In a dream
someone calling your name
from a far sea. A sign
from Allah. Says the book
of which, oriole, people.

Audio, Poems, Prompt Poems, Tributes

For Years, I Believed That

Rattle / November 22, 2023

You were my biggest mistake. In the yard,
our second son gave way to a shard

of glass and still, you did nothing. Kept mum.
Knife to air and he was taxing the sum

Poems

Kite Weather

Rattle / November 21, 2023

I drive Miss Carr to her kidney dialysis
in my taxi at 5 a.m.
She’s 43 and clutches
a ratty blanket.
At the clinic she lays back
on a gray vinyl bed-chair