Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
I will take your 31 days one
fray at a time, stitch it piece by
peace, fibre by fibre until a patchwork
of this emotional fabric of our lives emerges,
a blanket to wrap around
cold shoulders,
warm the cockles of my
desultory heart, ponder your
visage every night and fantasise about
being the 13th man to land
with the lunar module, pop
the hatch open, jump off with wild abandon
knowing the fall, in your low,
tender gravity
will not kill me.
First published in Mayari Literature Issue 1: Moon Ascend, San Francisco, USA.
