A different city

by Oonah V Joslin

each moment

emerges

from what has gone

before you were born

or we met

or were there together

all of us

young and lively;

or now.

We say,

It's changed. The old

folks have passed on.

We've changed.

Look at us.

Sixty plus

some gone before

the future arrived

and like it or not

we are reminded

the present was all

anyone ever owned

and is.

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Oonah V Joslin is poetry editor at The Linnet’s Wings. She has won prizes for both poetry and micro-fiction. Her book Three Pounds of Cells ISBN: 13: 978-1535486491 is available online from Linnet’s Wings Press and you can see and hear Oonah read in this National Trust video. The first part of her novella A Genie in a Jam is serialised at Bewildering Stories, along with a large body of her work (see Bibliography). You can follow Oonah on Facebook or at Parallel Oonahverse https://oovj.wordpress.com/.