Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-brown-and-white-textile-S-NrwbUgNrU) 23. 6. 2024.
how salt is made
when you’re driving fast for too long
the world starts to go in to reverse
and finally arrives
at nostalgia
and at the end of the road
are fields with
water channelled
and dammed
into pools
lots of pools
like a chess board
where they work
with long rakes
in the sun
day after day
for years
until the wounds on their
hands no longer
feel
the sting
About the Author: Tom is a poet from Devon in the UK and has been published in Punk Noir, Bristol Noir and A Thin Slice of Anxiety.
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