If these are the answers

A river is a question which flows towards an answer.
The fog a vapour trail from a panic of gulls.
Seaweed is the sustenance for lonely forage hipsters.
Salt a guilty pleasure for lost fisherman.
Song is a reminder they're still here.


Dawn’s minor miracles 
I wake to the hing of a buzzard,
in-sync with brushes on a snare drum
as warm wind plays the conifers.

She opened the velux window 
before she got up. I feel the air
play at the hairs on my chest.

I’m reading poems by a friend of mine.
Beyond the garden, down in the woods,
I swear I hear a yaffle scream.

A wasp flirts in the space between 
the window and its frame.
It can’t quite bring itself 
to fly through the gap.

About the author:

Mark Connors is an award winning writer, creative writing facilitator and publisher from Leeds. Mark has had over 300 poems published in magazines and anthologies. His debut poetry pamphlet, Life is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015.  His first full length collection, Nothing is Meant to be Broken was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. His second poetry collection, Optics, was published in 2019 by YAFFLE. His third collection After followed in 2021. He’s currently working on his third novel and a hybrid book of poetry and prose. He is a co-managing editor at YAFFLE and Yaffle’s Nest. www.markconnors.uk.