Bio
Patrick Lodge is an Irish/Welsh poet currently living in Yorkshire. His work has appeared in many English, Welsh, Australian and New Zealand magazines and his poems have been anthologised three times. He was a prize winner in the 2009 Envoi International competition. He travels a great deal and his work often explores a sense of dislocation and otherness.
Patrick Lodge
An Anniversary of Flight
(for Gill)
Forty years on from the first
birthday we shared;
you let go your heart,
loose and light as a balloon
it flew up, would have been free
but I reached up, blind,
caught it, held it tight,
feeling still the tug of the taut line,
the promise of airy uplift.