Portraits at the Art Museum
A man lets his head slump
on a faded chair cushion—
Paris, 1947.
He leans, eyes scrunched,
in a leather armchair—
Tokyo, 1995.
I remember life this way—
our drought defining
an entire country,
an entire year.
David Hanlon is a poet based in Cardiff, Wales. His work appears in numerous magazines and journals, including Rust & Moth, Anthropocene, and trampset. His latest collection, Dawn’s Incision, was published by Icefloe Press. You can follow him on Twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @hanlon6944.