Ploom #036
Japanese Visitor
Charlie Gracie
He was surprised we remembered
every year
Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
His home in Sendai, 100 kilometres from Fukushima Daiichi
his wife and children there with him
when it all went to fuck.
We were lucky, he said, with the wind.
100 kilometres.
Here to the Heads of Ayr
where I watched gannets that time
scythe the sea.
‘Japanese Visitor’ by Charlie Gracie, read by the author
Charlie Gracie
Charlie Gracie grew up in Baillieston, Glasgow. He now lives on the edge of the Trossachs. His poetry collections, Good Morning (2010) and Tales from the Dartry Mountains (2020), were published by Diehard Press. His first novel, To Live With What You Are (2019), was published by Postbox Press.