Bio
Patrick Johnston is a UK-born, Australia-based writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. His work often explores liminality, impermanence, and survival, weaving surreal imagery and cultural critique into intimate personal narratives. He is the author of The Gaps Between the Stories and has recent or forthcoming publications in The Louisville Review, Argyle Literary Magazine, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, and Love & Literature. Living with bipolar disorder and in recovery from alcoholism, he writes with candor and resilience, grounding experimental forms in lived experience and emotional truth.
Patrick Johnston
Obituary
The deceased started life in a cemetery
Which some might find ironic
Although he himself found it quite ordinary
Having not experienced an alternative
He lived a life that was either as full
Or as empty as life is
He busied himself with tasks
Some days it just rained
He went places and did things
He was liked by some and disliked by others
He grew older with the passing years
He slouched and drank his coffee from a bowl