How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
                                                                                 After defeating
                                                                   the bull-headed monster,
                                                        not once but
                                                                over and over again,
                                              I hung my sword up
                                   on the bullet-pitted wall,
                      and tried to find my way back home.

                                              The thread was broken, though,
                                       and now I wander in this fearful light
                                                                   and search for darkness.


Peter J. King was active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s.  Since his return
to poetry in 2013 after a long absence he’s published four collections (the latest being
Contact Light, Alien Buddha Press, 2025), and appears widely in journals and anthologies. 
He also translates, mainly from modern Greek and German, writes short prose, and paints.
Bluesky @rock-rex.bsky.social

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