Ink blue motions stencil sight lines into the harbour of my eyes. I rub at ink sticks until the ocean turns to soot. The rising shadows of New World Power loom from water’s depths. We float currency back to motherlands in a trickle down economy. What’s the pH balance of yin + yang?
swaying to drum-beats were my call to war-- the way I challenged any woman's charms and made a man see only me, want more than what I showed through subtle turns of cloth-- until the more I moved, the more he swore he'd have me-- pin my body like a moth against the floor....
Adrian Boas was born and grew up in Australia but has lived for the past 35 years in Jerusalem. He was born in 1952. He started writing poetry only recently. He is an archaeologist and university lecturer in the field of medieval archaeology (a field he has published 2 books, & is comp...