He sat on the beach of his private island,wrote messages on scraps of paperonce were staring blankly back at him,folded them up, pushed them through bottles’ narrow necksinto bottles’ ample bodies,where they, shaken, shifted. He flung them as far as he could into the ocean's waves,like a parent gazed after them,until he lost them in the sprayor the tangle of waves like a … [Read more...] about Desert Isle, By: Alan Hardy
Alan Hardy
About Alan Hardy
Alan Hardy has for many years run an English language school for foreign students (in UK). He’s been published in such magazines as Envoi, Iota, Poetry Salzburg, The Interpreter’s House, Littoral, Orbis, South, Pulsar, Lothlorien, 100subtexts, Fixator, Chewers, Feversofthemind and others. Poetry pamphlets Wasted Leaves (1996) and I Went with Her (2007). Though he has just recently started submitting again (after a little pause), he has always kept writing (and reading) poems.
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