shapeshifter
By Dave Lewis
dashing falcon riding the treeline buff breast, orange-tinted shift from earth to air yellow legs, hooked beak blue-grey back screeching like a child’s toy our smallest killer hunter and arrow shift from birch to grass fearless in the face of eagles able aviator aerial ace sailing across a large white cloud duck or dove, sparrow or quail none is safe under a lid of leaves shift from summer to snow a strand of light slimmer than a spider’s web blood on the altar fencepost pigeon hawk sickle claw rainstorm-wreathed shimmer shift from forest to sea beyond the waving willow limbs fast-flying Cudyll Bach ringing a Skylark higher leaf and light sorcerer magic shapeshifter shift from sunshine to sky
Dave Lewis
Dave Lewis is a writer, poet and photographer from south Wales. He read zoology at Cardiff University and has always lived in Wales apart from a year, teaching in Kenya.
He founded the International Welsh Poetry Competition – the biggest in Wales. He also runs Writers of Wales and the Poetry Book Awards.
His epic poem, Roadkill, deals with the class struggle, while his collection, Going Off Grid, outlines the dangers of digital capitalism. His latest release is Algorithm, where he dips into AI, war, nature, race, love and travel.
Resolutely untrendy he’s shunned by the literature establishment in Wales.
Photo credit: Nam Le
Apricot Press 