I've just finished reading Anthony Lawrence's multifaceted fresh poetry collection 'Signal Flare' (Puncher & Wattman). It's an engrossing affair filled with darkly humorous, disturbing and poignant short stories, bird references, arresting imagery, human truths and ambiguity. He's using less punctuation and considered line breaks this time around - there's a Beat quality to it all. Anthony's lyricism always grabs me. Check it out asap, LJ. 

POST-SCORCH, 18 OCTOBER 2013

We float through a world

that's surrendered to

sepia-infused Gothicism.

Yesterday, many were handed

loss, confusion and statelessness

for all their years of hard work.

On my windscreen wiper,

a raven-dark praying mantis,

as big as the word Lord

in a hymn book,

desperately tries

to cling to air.  

LJ, 18.10.13