The Wake after The Wake, by Mark Tansey (USA) contemporary Cleaved by the moon, it’s sigh breaking starless water. And the smeared waves are taut and pliant, strident as Cary Grant’s coiffure. Sleepy-drunk you fall silent and watch the way your champagne rocks with the sea, how the bubbles make acrid supernovas against silver glare. A punting boat pushes by and four small faces disappear into the night same as tipped ash from the circle of slow smoked cigars. A joke is told. The table laughs and heaves. A glass falls, miraculously bounces, is caught by the bars of the salt-worn balcony. David Dykes David Dykes is a poet based in Medway, Kent, England. He has produced three chapbooks, most recently Small Emperor Moth about the bug of the same name. He has been published in 365 Tomorrows, Scrittura and Thanet Writers among others. David has performed across the UK including the Faversham Fringe Festival and Watchet Musical Festival. With his partner he hosts poetry performance night Big Trouble and produces the podcast Little Riot.
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