Perched
Grant Shimmin
Downtown pigeons
cooing on the next roof
Chonky… and not so much
through the office window
Imagine never having to worry
you’re getting too close
to the edge
Grant Shimmin is a South African-born New Zealand poet, living in the small city of Christchurch, for whom human relationships, the natural world and their intersection are poetic passions. He has work published/forthcoming at Roi Faineant Press, Does it Have Pockets?, The Hooghly Review, Dreich, Tap Into Poetry and elsewhere.