John Pring

FALL ISSUE #14 POET

John Pring is a poet and author based in the UK, where he is a Masters candidate at the University of Sussex. He has work published or upcoming in The Comstock Review, Poetics Journal, B O D Y, The Passionfruit Review, Meniscus Literary, Oroboro, Santa Clara Review, The Argyle, and others.

KINGFISHER

If I gather it all
together, say it didn’t

approximate a suffering,
it would be a lie.

Naturally the border
moves itself,

yellow & I’ll never
see her again.

Watch the kingfisher,
evisceration

of blue-green light.
Watch the stickleback,

iridescent
for a single, unbroken tick.