After Escher

Michael McGill

four micro poems

photos: Michael McGill

After Escher

On a sunlit sheet
of paper I return
to the Annexe

where,
as children,
we climbed

towards Art;
ascending
towards History.

Three Haiku

Peeping Tom

Privacy on strings;
puppets shading from daylight;
drawn Venetian blinds.

Thursday
(for Dr. Margaret McCollum and Oswald Laurence)

On the Embankment,
the silence between Tube trains;
a widow, waiting.

Obituary
Archivists filing
memories in sepia;
a life, A-Z.

Michael McGill is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland who has recently been published in Lunate, Stone of Madness Press, Dreams Walking, Milly Magazine, Versification, The Daily Drunk, Rejection Letters, FEED, The Cabinet of Heed and detritus. His overheard comments and photopoems also regularly appear on Twitter @MMcGill09 and Instagram @michael7209.