Susan Gordon Byron

When a Man Washes In

Okay, I’ll keep it short,

because life is long and

my look at you is long –

I said I’d keep this short.

Your blue is long and

still leaking into mine.

Susan Gordon Byron is a non-fiction editor and podcaster in London. This autumn, her work has appeared in Dust Poetry. She has a NCTJ postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism, and this followed by two years’ writing at the Catholic Herald. She hosts The Culture Boar Podcast, and you can find her on Twitter @cultureboarpod