Final Affairs

Bernard Pearson

source: Antique Complex

Final  Affairs

We  found  budgie dust in
the piano, silver fish in
the bathroom, and
letters  written in Polish
from during the war
kept in an old Cerebos salt tin
when her house
was cleared out. 

When did they stop
Publishing ‘The Listener’?
and who the hell is Frank Ifield?
that was where she sat,
amongst the  balls of wools
and  Rowntrees fruit  pastilles.
during her last few days,
until  the carers came and went.

A Fresh Dawn

A moss crowned  bank
In the morning glows
With the collective will
Of the wee primrose

Bernard Pearson’s His work  appears in many publications, including; Aesthetica Magazine , The Edinburgh Review, Crossways, The Gentian, Nymphs The Poetry Village, Beneath The Fever, The Beach Hut The Littlestone Journal.  In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf  Press. In 2019  he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing for his poem Manor Farm. He is also a Biographer and prize-winning short story writer.