Aaron Aquilina is an academic with the University of Malta's Department of English. His book 'The Ontology of Death' has been published with Bloomsbury (2023), and his work on poetry, prose, and literary theory has been published in various journals and edited collections. He has also published some poetry, with his latest poems appearing in the 'International Human Rights Arts Journal' and 'Stand' (2024). He is the founding general editor of 'ANTAE', an online journal of creative writing that has been active since 2013 (https://www.um.edu.mt/antae/).

Aaron Aquilina

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God

God is a man sitting
cross-legged on a beach,
idling away sand
between his fingers and his thumb.
God squats between hopes and hopelessness,
less than the parts of his sum.
He clears the beach with a single sigh,
before returning to the antonym of high.