Lost
Labour
Her back
to the bright,
bubbling party she stood
within a
closet of shadow
at the
corner of the balcony,
a glass
more than half full
held
slackly
in her
pale protruding hand,
and I
sensed a heart
was draining.
Anthony Wade
Anthony Wade, a Forward Prize
nominee, is a graduate lawyer with a Master’s Degree, educated in England who also worked in The Netherlands. He
published his first poem in 2018 and since in poetry journals in Ireland,
Britain, India and the US, in print and online, including Ariel Chart, Borderless,
Drawn To The Light, Dreich, Green Ink, Lakeview International Literary Journal,
Ogham Stone, Scrittura Magazine, Setu Bilingual Journal, Strands Lit Sphere,
Tiny Seed and The Dawntreader. Diaspora Irish, he happily now lives by the sea
in East Cork, only ten miles from where he spent childhood summers, and is an
active member of the local writers’ group.