John Glenday

John Glenday works as a drugs counsellor and has two collections published by Peterloo Poets. He began the first draft of Gallur on the Ebro while facilitating a creative writing workshop based on Frank Brangwen's work at the McManus Galleries.

Poems

GALLUR ON THE EBRO

After Frank Brangwen

This is my formula for the fall of things:
we come to a river we always knew we'd have to cross.
It ferries the twilight down through fieldworks

of corn and half-blown sunflowers.
The only sounds – one lost cicada calling to itself
and the piping of a bird that will never have a name.

Now tell me there is a pause
where we know there should be an end;
then tell me you too imagined it this way:

with our shadows never quite touching the river
and the river never quite reaching the sea.

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