John is a long-standing member of the Society, who now lives in East Anglia but still joins our events by Zoom. This poem came second in the Folio competition in 2019, and was published in Folio 73.
Charger after a screen print by Zsophia Schweger at the RA summer exhibition 2018 she's left her charger I am alone in this bare pastel house with nothing but her charger its wire straggles on the floor seeking an absent phone but this is a comfort it means she'll return if only to retrieve her charger
The Kent & Sussex Poetry Society 