Poetry by James Walton

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​A study of lovers and not


as if
they have swallowed a rainbow
their gait a warble
the rest
move in tight bandages
wobble in strain
heads tilted
Moon River
Audrey Hepburn
looking in




quietly the light is listening


walk carefully here
softly pull the wild dandelion
its poverty of flower
in all I had to give
with each tailing wind
the tremble of breeze
is me always me
so I touch you again
everything we were
in here to threads
floats an unbidden course
rises to outwit the living
smart people will say
there’s more it’s complicated
until a whisper can be heard

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Bio: James Walton is an Australian poet published in newspapers, and many journals, and anthologies. His collection ‘The Leviathan’s Apprentice’ was published in 2015.He was a Librarian, a farm labourer, a cattle breeder, and a public sector union organizer. He is now a hermit of fewer things.

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