summer sun
by David Mclean © 2008
summer sun children swim in the sea
they imagine they are happy
they imagine this is life
night in me sings a swimming winter shark to them
rises surfaces and strikes
David McLean is Welsh though he has lived in Sweden since 1987. He has a couple of chapbooks out, one a free download at Whyvandalism.com. The other, in print, can be ordered at http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/davidmclean/4527659941 . He has a full length poetry collection available at Whistling Shade Press called Cadaver's dance. It can be ordered on alibris.com on amazon.com. A second book of 128 pp is coming from Erbacce-press in august, "pushing lemmings." There is a self-published book of 109 pages at Lulu called "eating your night" - http://www.lulu.com/content/2756039 . There are 550 poems now in, or forthcoming, in round 240 magazines online and/or in print. Details are at his blog at htpp://mourningabortion.blogspot.com.