glassed houses
Geoffrey Aitken
arguments now;
nightly
suburban life
shouts harder times
into districts
where concerns
that disturb neighbours
call local police.
last night
his angry bellows
remembered
her tears,
frozen in ice cube trays,
had reduced his Scotch
to a misery
unfit for Gin.
Geoffrey Aitken is a Friendly Street awarded minimalist poet who writes on Adelaide's unceded Kaurna land, social conscience driven, post-retirement from senior school English teaching, he reaches out to any former students uninspired by curriculum poetry while understanding the value of language. He writes daily to offset the effects of an anxiety driven mood disorder for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN]. Recently, ‘STREETCAKE’, ‘Stepaway Magazine’ [UK], ‘Vilas Avenue’ [US]. Soon ‘ZiNDaily’ [HR] & ‘Social Alternatives’ [AUS]; Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.