The Pond

The pond isn’t there anymore.

It’s dried up, the water gone.

It never was bottomless, but then he never really believed it had been.

He often visits the pond in his dreams. But now it’s not there anymore.

Nod Ghosh
from filthy sucre, Truth Serum Press, 2020

Nod Ghosh is a graduate of the Hagley Writers’ Institute in Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Nod’s books have been published in the U.K. and Australia. The most recent is How to Bake a Book Everytime Press (2025), a text-book on creative writing. See http://www.nodghosh.com for further details.

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