the way the egg of a day
cracks open and slow yolk of evening
soaks into a slice of horizon
or the reds and oranges illuminate
the winter houses so tired fathers
schlepp slumped children from the edges
of commuter towns to cruise past
our blazing windows above which tiny bulbs
of water glow on each slack wire
or how new archipelagos of cloud
are formed from molten light
Ben Verinder holds an MA in Writing Poetry from The Poetry School and Newcastle University. His debut pamphlet, Botanicals, won the Frosted Fire Firsts competition in 2021. His second, We Lost The Birds, was published by Nine Pens in 2023. His third, How to Save a River, won the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2024/5 prize. His poems have been published widely in journals and magazines.
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