Collecting Grasshoppers

Bernard  Pearson

Long ago sun
Greenest of blade
Still frame, design classic,
In the cup of my hand
an inexperienced  God,
with a small jam jar.

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Bernard Pearson

His work appears in over one hundred and thirty publications worldwide, including; Aesthetica Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, and Crossways and The York Literary Review. In 2017, a selection of Bernard Pearson’s poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019, he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing for his poem Manor Farm.