Do you think
A stone taken up from the ground
Forgets where it is from?
Erased of place, of memory?
Do you think it remembers
The rough kiss
The tender current
The air, the ocean
The chatter of falcons nesting?
Does it still think fondly
Of the year you were born?
Oak Ayling is a young woman quietly stitching poetry into the blurry windswept border between Cornwall and Devon, England. Highly commended by Indigo Press in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2018, her work can be found in Anti Heroin Chic Magazine, the fast growing lit mag From Whispers to Roars and forthcoming charitable anthology ‘Shorthand’ by author Helen Cox in support of UK homeless charity Streetlink.
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