House

Daniel Appleby

The blue sky
reminds me
of a house
at the end
of the street

forcing me to
remember the
holidays
from Florida to
Jamaica.

The crispy, clean
waves and the
neon-coloured accommodations,
all covered underneath
a simple pine tree

where childhood beginnings
transform into
sodden, inhospitable
tears. I love that house.
Like a crab, it hides forever.

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Daniel Appleby
Daniel Appleby is an autistic, bass-playing writer and poet who is currently in the process of turning his room into a personal library. He has been published in Breaking the Static: A Chapter House Anthology, Kinpaurak, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit's Superfan Wrestling Zine (forthcoming publication), and has performed his poetry at the Faversham Literary Festival Poetry Slam Competition Feb 2024. Find him on Instagram at @danie_lappleby.