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The fall of Icarus

A friend once told me that Icarus is falling
as we sipped our ______ coffee, picked
at our ______ order delivered by ______. Did you know,
she said, that due to the growth of ______ (they have an outlet
in every front room in Britain now), we have shifted
our reference points, connections, our thoughts
and so ______ and ______ and ______ and ______
have finally pushed the old myths away
and now Icarus is falling, is falling, Icarus is falling
out of consciousness

Painting by streetlights

1. This one’s a corpuscle, a golden sun suspended in space illuminating soulless pavement below.
2. This one’s a violence of energy, pushing against the world around it, racing out to touch the surrounding air.
3. This one is a lone fragment of a distant fire burning far, far away on an empty hilltop, warning the ships out at sea away from the dangers of the cobbles.

Lament of the Irish Lighthouse Keeper

Out on the West Coast                   
Four months out, then                    
We play chess via radio                
Here we stay lonely. We        
         
our beams burst in clear, precise               
one month ashore. We live by                      
move by move, considered, in                    
ward off sea-bound friends in         
 
            
mathematical intervals.
mathematical intervals.
mathematical intervals.
mathematical intervals.

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Ben Ray is an award-winning young poet from the depths of Wales, UK. His work has been published in various online and offline journals, and his second collection, 'What I heard on the Last Cassette Player in the World', is being released in 2019 with Indigo Dreams Publishing. For more information, go to his Twitter at: @BenRayThePoet or check out his website: www.benray.co.uk.
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