(after Patrick Kehoe’s Longing) On the grey-blue sea, the water sparkles like a mermaid’s tail, and in the distance, the Sirens, too far to hear. Rain falls from a low sky. When my father threw seeds to pigeons on his balcony, I also saw him stretch his arm to the sky, point his finger to […]
Ion Corcos
Ion Corcos was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969. He has been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Westerly, Plumwood Mountain, Wild Court, riddlebird, and other journals. Ion is a nature lover and a supporter of animal rights. He is the author of A Spoon of Honey (Flutter Press, 2018).
The Snail
It takes its time; a leaf hangs low in a bush, irregular and spacious, mailbox dew. Apolitical, not like Elysium, now near oil refineries. This day, the rain is over: the thunder, the mood, the reason to commodify miserableness. Still, you tell me it might yet storm this afternoon, to stall restlessness, keep recognition corrupt. […]