[Poetry | Issue 13]
john pring
How to Disappear
Sky tilts on night’s scaffold,
remembers itself in the glint
of sea. Lie back and let
the silicate soak what seeps
from you, flesh spreading
like a thumb-torn peach.
You think moonlight
and it washes you, think
dissipate
and the body is gone,
cavity in the beachhead
slowly filling with salt.
John Pring is a poet and author based in the UK, where he is an MFA candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has work published or upcoming in New Ohio Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry Online, West Trade Review, and others.