​Audio System
By Bernard Pearson
I have old ears now,
Like caves.
Where the sounds
Of those now gone
Still remain.
My mother’s
‘Come along, come along,
come quickly.’
And the skim of my fathers
Cherry wood walking stick,
Marking a course
through broad leaf waves
Bernard Pearson is published in around one hundred journals and magazines worldwide. He is also a spoken-word performer, finalist in both the John Tripp Spoken Word Competition and The All Wales Comic Verse Competition. Plus a biographer and prize-winning short story writer. His work has appeared in many publications. In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize (an international competition in Poetry) for his poem ‘Manor Farm’ and his first novel ‘Where the Willows End‘ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. His second novel was published in 2022.