Volume 5 | Issue 2 | June-July
2011 |
Towers of Chun
Nigel Burwood
Uncle Max knows the towers of Chun
And remembers how their exterior
Resembles a cliff face.
Even the most advanced aircraft
Cannot discover his hiding place.
He is there now
Writing nonsense
In faultless terza rima.
Nigel Burwood - Nigel Burwood, British, lives in Santa Cruz, California and also in London and Norfolk part of the year. When he isn't writing poems and publishing them in literary journals, he sells books on the Internet, attends auctions and plays golf. A collection of his poetry is currently published in World's Strand, an international anthology (academici/UK 2006) for which he suggested the title, helping to mold the vision. An English major with a degree from Southampton, favorite poets and writers include Baudelaire, Eliot, Borges, Nabokov and Meades.
