Caught Caught in the fierce -ness of grief caught in its storm like Hiroshige's country folk surprised by rain that drenches you as you hurry to cross the bridge one dark November night Heading for the shelter of home And the storm doesn't pass you stay drenched for years and you have no coat no coat could protect you from this Mike Baynham Mike Baynham is a semi retired linguist, based in Leeds UK, who writes, performs and translates poetry from a number of languages, chiefly Spanish, but also French and Arabic. He learnt the meaning of "ekphrastic," a new word for him, when his son was studying for an English degree, though truly came to understand it through reading Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter."
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The Ekphrastic Review
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May 2022
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