Bio
David Adès is an Australian poet based in Sydney. He is most recently the author of "The Heart's Lush Gardens", "The Toolmaker and Other Poems" and "A Blink of Time's Eye". He hosts a monthly poetry podcast series, Poets' Corner, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist.
David Adès
Despair
Look at it. The swift running river of this imagination has run dry.
It's rich, fertile alluvial soil has turned to dust. Now it is all rocks
under a festering sun. Now it is all crumbling banks
of baked dirt where there were words tripping over themselves
Now the thunderclouds and their blessed rains have moved away.
Can silence sound like a hammer blow?
Can absence haunt the wind? Where to now, in the face of what the
world has become? The project is reclamation and it has failed.
Reclaim hope, belief, inspiration, reclaim a future.
We are falling into the black hole of ourselves, so close to an event
horizon we sense without seeing. If blindness were an asset its share
price would be rising. Is love still in the room?