tropical house by Martin Potter tepid lapping a concrete lipthe koi concealed until they riseripple the water’s viscous skin where you could sit on the smooth ledgeor a piously provided benchback from the basin’s retaining wall lily pad leather patches the poolwhile heavy foliage arched abovescreens off the structure of glass sky you first learned a banana leafcaught in the humid comfort heatthe minah birds’ voices drift across from nextdoor climate zoneit’s an iron-girded universe About the Author Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Manchester, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, andother journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December, 2017. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Published by fragmentedvoices A small, independent press based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and Prague, the Czech Republic View all posts by fragmentedvoices