Land Grave
by Tom Blake
Like I said it was
a good day as in
not feeling too much
like or somewhere
in between
the cuckoos
cooked and
the parsley
parsed and all
was right with
right with you
I’ll be I’m just
getting into it
this new t shirt
which like I said was
or did I was
the reason it was
a good day daughter
practising football
also German
not noch etwas
just tit I mean tid
bits of voice
from inside
out
by the by the beans
boomed out in
to the still
not noch
no start again
not nocturnal
night and gale
of daughter
buttered lawn and bean
poles singing girl
into mast shaking
wind
garden grove
and gravel
Tom Blake (he/him) is an author, poet, and freelance music journalist living in the UK. He has had short stories published by 404Ink and Mono. His debut poetry pamphlet, Ƨ, was published in 2023 by Red Ceilings Press and his poems have appeared in various magazines including Anthropocene, The Frogmore Papers, Obsessed With Pipework and Smiths Knoll. His novel about the Parisian artist Maurice Utrillo earned him an MA with Distinction from Middlesex University's Novel Writing programme and he writes regularly for KLOF magazine.