In the coming emergency,
dreams may have to
be shackled, children
cleaved from their
mothers' breasts,
lovers not to our liking
may have their hearts impounded
and the homeless hungry
made to eat the sidewalks.
Everyone must play their part in
the coming emergency.
Bernard Pearson's work appears in many publications, including; Aesthetica Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, The York Literary Review. 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 for Writing,