The Sleepers
- The Sleepers
let's talk about clarity the stained-glass smoothness of stonesthe holed moon bloodied by its sudden leap i come across streamscaked in alluvium hills with barbed-wire headsnomadic magicians making hats for tricks i pick up coinsdropped from the pockets of long-term sleepers
the return journey is all ceremonial all about juggling emotionsthe sky's blue ropes hands holding hands [End Page 421]
Iain Britton is the author of six collections of poems. Recent works have been published or are forthcoming in Landfall, Brief, The New Zealand Yearbook, Cordite, foam:e, Southerly Journal, Harvard Review, Poetry (Chicago), Jacket 2, the New York Times, DMQ Review, Stand, Agenda, Poetry Wales, Long Poem Magazine, the Fortnightly Review, and the Journal of Poetics Research (Australia). His collection The Intaglio Poems was published by Hesterglock Press (United Kingdom) in 2017.
