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

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Wrong Turn

Shopfallen
Fallen to the shop floor
In the Supermarket
In Ba Vi
In Vietnam
In the aisle
With the cling wrap
Heave crying
As a young couple step around me
To buy their products

I am the product
Of somebody else's suicide