NVN Saturday: AFTER THE SINGER, SILENCE
by Kai Jensen
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Along the underside of the deck railing 1000 droplets hang each catching the grey morning light like a Christmas string and a magpie’s carolling down by the lake on and on. You’ve gone downstairs to give your morning sessions this first day of December, 2023. Yesterday Shane McGowan died that broken beautiful man. Maybe that’s why the magpie sang so long although it’s fallen silent now, and why I sit here, on and on, mesmerised by these beads of light.
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Vale Shane McGowan, 25 December 1957 - 30 November 2023, lead singer of The Pogues.
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Kai Jensen is a US-born Kiwi/Australian poet who now lives at Wallaga Lake on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kai’s poetry has appeared in many Australasian literary journals.