Mutiny!

Leaf 269 – Reflections

 

Yinka Shonibare - Nelson's Ship in a Bottle (2010)

The writing of this poem is loosely linked to a longer poem written around the same time and already posted in Leaf 159. See also, my poem ‘The Returning Wave’ in Oatleaf Magazine (July 2025).

 

 

Stuck in a bottle

muttering mutiny

until the cork pops.

 

 

 

 

Photograph credit: Cambridge 2000