This hemisphere’s all wrong;
Its seasons oppose me.
The moon is aslant.
The Greenwich Mean Time Magnet
is calling me back.
The magnetism unrolls me,
controls and consoles me,
but eight thousand miles
is such a long way back.
A. J. Fife is a short fiction writer and poet. Originally from the UK, he now lives and teaches in Thailand. His hobbies include: swimming in waterfalls, rummaging in second-hand bookshops and sampling dusty vinyl records.
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- Hemispheres - 2nd November 2021