april’s swollen
stream makes
our for
lorn willows wade
their gree n
trunks trailing
muddy wakes
hear the meadow
now sub
mit as trickling soil
-scented lengths
of glit
tering
wet en
croach across
grass
april’s water is
f
alling
from april’s
steady
grey gaze of
clouds how
april has no
cares at
all
for cherry’s
petals now
racing drain
wards in a
pril’s rills
i met a made
up man in an
emp
ty field he
said to some
one like me that
he will soon
win
his battle
with april
for sure
his hurts
from april’s
sharp buds
& sun
lit rains will
ease for soo
n april’s
days will
fa
de into may’s
it is yes
to day
i saw light
wriggle may’s
same name across
a lake’s
swallow-grazed
skin yet may’s
face today is
a sweet strang
er’s
bright throw of
slight
ly frightening gr
owth
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist & fiction-maker … and speaks and writes in differing ways. He has a number of books & chapbooks with various poetry houses, including Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, & Shearsman Books. His chapbook Erodes On Air (a compressed mountain travelogue) is published in the U.S. by Middle Creek (Beulah, 2021). Mark’s poetry was included in The Ground Aslant – an anthology of radical landscape poetry edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books, Exeter, 2011) & The Footing edited by Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press, Sheffield, 2013). His latest chapbooks are: to ‘B’ nor as ‘tree’ (Intergraphia, Sheffield, October 2022) & Of Gone Fox (The Hedgehog Poetry Press, Clevedon, April 2023). Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester.
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