I can hear
seagulls
fucking
on the roof
they go
ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
then there is
the sound of
wings flapping
then they go
ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
again
Oliver Land’s work has been published in Hobart, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Expat Press, Spectra Poets, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, White Light Fades (Plague Circus Press, 2026), is forthcoming.

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