Bordeaux Bay

Bordeaux Bay
Bordeaux Bay by Guernsey-based artist Tony Taylor

Sunday 29 May 2022

AUTO BIOGRAPHY

The poem, Memento Mori, is a personal favourite. It first appeared in my 2017 collection, Stone Witness, and has since appeared in Snakeskin, a highly respected international poetry webzine which previously published a number of my other poems.


Image Rod Hunt















MEMENTO MORI


An ambulance howls like a hurt cat;

parts traffic as Moses did the waves.


Worms burrow in awaiting graves.

A police car buzzes like a gnat.


Stuck in a jam of steaming cars,

I contemplate how life transforms

in moments. How they wait, those worms,

so patiently, for us, for ours.

 

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