Today, I pull another Proost book off my bookshelf—this time by Chris Fosten.
Chris had been writing poems on Post-It notes as a simple daily exercise, then posting them on social media. These poems were extraordinary—spry, intelligent and deceptively simple, both because of the format, but also in the way that poems bring their multiple meanings and take you on a journey. In the end, we were able to gather some of the poems into this lovely book.
Here is Chris’s poem, ‘Bursting light’.
Bursting Light, by Chris Fosten
Squally, pushing rain
ushers into the trees
and we stop to watch.
Seeing the cloud swirl
across the landscape
rocking trees in its wake
Is when I see it:
a copse - sparse, thin
bathed in sunlight
