WHEN IT'S TIME TO GO by Clive Donovan
Not to be pulled out wrestled from a hide
Like a rabbit
Or uncooperative trout
Or bludgeoned pig or sheep or cow;
I would rather like to go like this parsley on my plate;
Green, alive, and willing, in acquiescence to my fate.
Like a rabbit
Or uncooperative trout
Or bludgeoned pig or sheep or cow;
I would rather like to go like this parsley on my plate;
Green, alive, and willing, in acquiescence to my fate.
Clive Donovan's Bio:
Clive Donovan devotes himself full-time to poetry and has published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Prole, Sentinel, Stand. and now Antipoetry! He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He is a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for this year’s best individual poems and his first collection, The Taste of Glass, is recently published by Cinnamon Press.
Clive Donovan devotes himself full-time to poetry and has published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Prole, Sentinel, Stand. and now Antipoetry! He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He is a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for this year’s best individual poems and his first collection, The Taste of Glass, is recently published by Cinnamon Press.
