Featured Photo: by Derrick Knight, and a sincere thank you to Derrick for permitting me to use his fabulous image here in collaboration with my poem. This is now our “40th” collaborative article, and our joint book “Perceptions” is now in the hands of my editor/publisher (Judy, from Jaymah Press), and hopefully, the book will be in print before Christmas
Standing On Unstable Ground
Do not make me laugh
The pain would cut me in half
Instead
Pass me yesterday’s leftover chaff
Alas
I cannot leave you an autograph
I am a wounded grey donkey
Standing on unstable ground
Feeling disabled and lonely
And my inner damage is yet to be found
Ivor Steven © August 2022