The noxious emerald lake has our memories on its bosom
and nothing more. Its glory days have hovered away
perpetually in the past tense like a polaroid frame
we never thanked it we never
apologised for the thousand times we beat it with our paddles
no humans sing now but the hummingbirds do ripple through the air
and though the laughter of us children died millennia ago
i can hear me saying your name
The author
Dylan Brennan is a 19 year-old writer from London, known for his debut fantasy novel Noble: Betrayed.
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