Alan Peat

Vanishing Act

The great reveal comes in the moment of disappearance; when the sun drops so low that every tiny thing in flight lights up, and blown seeds fill the blazing air. 

The room was white. There were oxygen canisters. My mother swears, as you left, you were smiling.

an arm 
sawn in two
in a half-filled frame
his first wife cut right
from the picture 

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About the Author

Alan Peat is a UK-based poet and author. His work has featured in Frogpond, Mayfly, Heliosparrow, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, and Hedgerow, among others. He won a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun 2022, was runner-up in the 2021 British Haiku Society’s Ken and Norah Jones Haibun Award, and was joint third-place winner in the 2022 Time Haiku ekphrastic haibun contest.

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