Stephen C. Middleton

Contrary (Shadows)

 
Contrary but conflated impulses
Every nightfall

A shredder at the Embassy
Before the helicopters come
A rooftop rescue
Or; depositions before surgery
More paper generated

But the same urgency
The same unease
Similar shadows…

Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light(Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010), & Yesterday’s Music Today (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2015). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in many magazines worldwide. He is currently working on projects (prose and poetry) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.