This poem is taken from Stand 241, 22(1) March - May 2024.

Dominic James Bikini Lagoon
Cheek pressed to sand and canny splash
of shallow wave, my lips froth-rimmed,
and throat is too, in the feathered lashes
of my eyes a godwit patters into a view
centred on the atoll’s sparse, weak fringe
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