After You Were Gone
By D A Angelo
The beech trees
in the garden
in the garden
laid down
their branches
as your name
cut the air.
Shortlisted for the 2023 Manchester Poetry Prize, D A Angelo is a UK-based poet with recent work in The Crank, SurVision, Eclectica Magazine, Flights of the Dragonfly, Impspired, The Amazine, and South Florida Poetry Journal.