Poem

'Silverflash'

by Will Eaves •

February 2009, no. 308

Poem

'Silverflash'

by Will Eaves •

February 2009, no. 308

Not since I was four or five at most
and in the first of many striped tee-shirts
have I been this close to the flavour of safety.
I’m walking into town again, the child of hills.
You bought me fish and chips for lunch, my own
adult portion because I asked for it, in Evans’s
tiled restaurant, the Alhambra of takeaways.

Will Eaves

Will Eaves most recent book, The Absent Therapist, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014 and will be published in Australia by Penguin later this year.