Cave Heart Absence, its invisible domination hollowed-out my growing heart no water slide valves and vessels no flowing, pumping, beating but stalactites dripping with name calls and neglect no clarity but thoughts hanging like bats in the daytime and an open mouth no voice but void tongueless a vehicle with no road shock-widened and crystallized an acquiescent entrance a capacious plea
David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. You can find his work online in over 90 magazines, including Rust & Moth, Barren Magazine, The Lumiere Review & trampset. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available at Animal Heart Press. You can follow him on twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @hanlon6944
Amethyst Review 