Ion Corcos

The Salt on Rotten Apples

A car door shuts, a tram clatters;
rain, no umbrella. An assembling of desire.
Nearness: unpainted apartments, a steeple,
inexactitude. All the forgettings.
The stream under Lion’s Bridge is now a river;
it drapes its low banks. Abiding
in the rush of water, the impermanence
of mountains. Left behind, snow peas,
rotten apples, old silence. A red fox.
A solitary walnut tree, yellowing.

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Ion Corcos was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969. He has been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Wild Court, The Sunlight Press and other journals. Ion is a nature lover and a supporter of animal rights. He is the author of A Spoon of Honey (Flutter Press, 2018).