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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


Diane Jackman's writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Happenstance Press, Rialto, snakeskin, Bangor Literary Journal, and has won several competitions. Starting as a children's writer, she now concentrates on short fiction and poetry. She is passionately interested in Anglo-Saxon literature and mediaeval rabbit warrens.


Diane Jackman


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Slow River

Through the overhanging alders
the sun throws a flickering newsreel
across the trunks of trees.

And the names of the dead are
written on the water-lily pads.

A banded argonis lands
on a broken reed and lifts
its wings to wait for the end
of its damsel-fly day.

Fading on the bank,
forget-me-nots.