John William Wilkinson     


BOULDERS

Boulders every
which way as
if the innards of
a broken kaleidoscope
chucked aside by
a bored god
at the water’s edge:
some of them
precariously balanced
liable to topple
at any moment...
and I pass by
(ridiculously small)
one or a thousand million
instances before
they fall.

John William Wilkinson

Published in "La Costa Poética", by Point Editions © by the author Used by permission of the author Note on the author: born in Sidney, Australia, lives in Barcelona as critic, journalist