Martin Jon Porter
Streets
The streets
are never narrow
for some –
feeling
finding
new keys scattered on the footpath
every day.
What about those
who walk
the same way
trying to stay
between lines
over sprayed?
Martin Jon is the author of the chapbook Traits (Ginninderra Press, 2016). Recent work can be found in Medusa’s Laugh Press Microtext, Exposition Review’s Flash 405, and The Poeming Pigeon. He is a teacher who lives in Melbourne.
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