"Talking to Myself"
by Neville Johnson
A nightly ritual of ice cubes gently falling into an empty glass.
Cognac flows over the ice cubes,
like a beautiful artistic dance, moving gracefully by herself.
The crackling and squeaky sound of the ice cubes breaks and snaps the dead silence.
Swirling the ice cubes around in my glass is like a theatrical portrayal of my past,
A nightly tale that I tell myself.
Neville Johnson is a UK veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. Follow him here. Listen to the Savage Wonder podcast episode with him here.
Sweeping Leaves in the Wind, Good Soldiers Don’t Cry, and Alone in a Crowded Room by the Veterans Collective, featuring selections from Neville Johnson.
War...& After The Anthology of Poet Warriors Collection 2 by Dead Reckoning Collective, featuring selections from Neville Johnson.
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