Umbrella
A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose


Paul Stevens

was born in England but lives in Australia with his wife and numerous children, pets and citrus trees.

He has an Honours degree in English and teaches literature.

He edits The Chimaera with Peter Bloxsom, and he is widely published online and in print, most recently in Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Snakeskin, Soundzine, qarrtsiluni and Mannequin Envy.


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Rum!

This is a rum affair! I thought:
    Those daring birds, instead
Of flying underfoot—Blow me!—
    They’re flying overhead!

And babies seem—extraordinary!—
    To be both cute and small;
Rather than rise, the night begins,
    Miraculously, to fall!

Expected unexpecteds! Known
    Unknowns, and unknown knowns,
With flashing lightning, rustling leaves,
    Soft sunsets and hard stones:

World of surprise reversals! How
    Bizarre, still, to discover
The person best described as “I”
    Contrives to be your lover!
 
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