Poems from the 12-Hour Sonnet Contest: Anthro, James McConachie
James McConachie has been published by Iambapoet, Eat the Storms, Black Bough, the Dark Mountain project and Pilgrim House Magazine. His debut collection will be published by Black Bough, late 2024.
Anthro
spritely
scampered hand-friends, puckish, princely
imps,
homunculi, winged tiny heathens.
And
I wonder why and whether, simply
the familiar comforts of a face
are
what we need, to feel assured, at home
with
all our rights, as the ascendant race
and
brute dominion as a founding tome.
While
all around the air, the limbs of trees
are
dense with weightless lives of dazzling song,
from
a kaleidoscopic panoply
of
miracles. I fear we have it wrong
to
centre wonder, as a part of us.
Since
seed set fat, we have been ever thus.
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