“Loss and Urgency” by Roy Duffield

                     as our days grow
ever shorter
                     as our time passes
ever faster
                     as we sat
                     on the rocks
                     as the last of the dark sank into the ocean
                     as we watched
                    our goodbyes
                              capsize
                     on the horizon
             I wondered
                                 why
      and what it will be like
                     as our days grow
ever longer

Roy Duffield‘s travels have taken him through 15 African countries and counting. His writing has recently appeared (or soon will do) in The Trouvaille Review, Night Bus to Speakers’ Corner, PoENtry Slam, Flashes of Brilliance, Half-baked, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pure Slush, Strukturriss and a currently untitled anthology for Marie Curie nurses during coronavirus.