Almanac Poetry: ‘Mid Spring Detente’
Mid Spring Detente
take it easy sister
I found myself saying
so corpulent this generous Spring
coiled in a pharaoh’s headstall
puffed up to strike
an arm and wrist
in a tomb’s pose of warning
shedding a hypnotist’s trigger
enough notches this early in the season
to bury me a hundred times and more
a tiger on a doormat
that might strike or wander
or just doze back
into a cosy afternoon dawdle
she doesn’t like my nervous version
of an apprehensive Hey Jude
not wanting to give up the old reds now
her venom’s curdled and lazy
tongues the air with a casting flicker
then in an amble full of purpose
yields the brick path as if I matter
James Walton
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About James Walton
James Walton is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers. He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Poetry Prize, the MPU International Poetry Prize, The James Tate Prize, and the Ada Cambridge Prize. Five collections of his poetry have been published. He was nominated for ‘The Best of the Net’ 2019, and was a Pushcart Prize 2021 nominee. He is a winner of the Raw Art Review Chapbook Prize. His fifth poetry collection, Snail Mail Cursive, was published by Ginninderra Press in January 2023. He now resides in Wonthaggi, Australia, in an Edwardian house which was once a small maternity hospital.
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