Across a vastness of sand swept 
by the ocean breeze 

the light fell in pearls 
of orange 

you ran as a fool 
to raise a laugh 

*

I find it hard 
to find 
to find the words 
and to say to say 
to say them 
love 

*

Up in the dunes I buried shells 
deep down in the sands 

hid them 
beneath the weight of the heavy sands 

Simon Ravenscroft

lives in Cambridge, England. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge, working in philosophy, religion, and related arts subjects. He has published poems recently in The Alchemy Spoon; JAKE: The Anti-Literary Magazine; Meniscus; Red Ogre Review; swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings; and Trampoline, among others.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Mr. F. (of Supple Mind), flash fiction by Simon Ravenscroft in Ink Sweat & Tears (11 July 2024)

⚡ Rotten Riches (James 4:13–5:6): Commentaries by Ruth Jackson and Simon Ravenscroft (2018) on works of art by Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Hans Holbein the Younger, at Visual Commentary on Scripture (2018)