J.L. McCavana
J.L. McCavana lives in County Antrim. He has been published in Tales From the Forest, The Honest Ulsterman and will appear in the first issue of The Bangor Literary Journal. He loves his new Magagascar Dragon Tree.
Vision
St. James’s Park, 6 A.M.
You
on The Blue Bridge
the lake water
tattooed with light
it’s black skin
wrinkled as if
tickled into laughlines
like the ones that curl
from your lover’s
eyes
the grey red-nebbed geese stretched
and flapped their wings
as though shaking off
the gloom
and honked a hungover
morning tune
legs of Red-Crested
Pochard and early morning
runners cranked the day
into being
and the trees were shedding
the night
You tattooed my eyes
your black skin stretched
into a lover’s wings
© 2018 J.L. McCavana