One touch
and the whole world swings,
swivels on its axis
like a painted globe.
Clouds swim beneath the lake’s rippled skin,
reeds reach down their roots
like necks, straining for the sunken sun,
while a flock of silvered fish take wing,
soaring through the strange and new.
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Jennifer Moore is a freelance writer and children’s author from Devon. Her short fiction and poetry publications include The Guardian, Mslexia, The First Line and Short Fiction.She is a previous winner of both the Commonwealth Short Story Competition and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest. Her children’s books (writing as Jenny Moore) are published by Maverick Arts Publishing.
Find her online at jennifermoore.wordpress.com or on Twitter @JennyWriteMoore.
Find her online at jennifermoore.wordpress.com or on Twitter @JennyWriteMoore.
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- Everything is Upside Down - 25th November 2020