Somewhere in suburbia Kate is drowning.
You can’t hear her too clearly, for she speaks
wearily but sincerely, in another language.
Her hands are grasping but she isn’t climbing,
she’s falling. In clean blue blankets
and dusty denim wind,
and somewhere across the street,
Jane will be crying out.
David Brady’s love for reading and writing poetry began when he formed and ran a creative writing group in college. He earned his teaching qualification in 2019, and now works in an international school in Lisbon, Portugal as an English language teacher and tutor.