This poem is taken from PN Review 259, Volume 47 Number 5, May - June 2021.
Poems
provision
a stealthy heron
stalks a sinking sun
while waders skim the waterline
to follow and feed
and all I bring
is a pen that sometimes
spells your name
in a lick of ink along a line
of tides swept in under mind
and over sand
flipping lacy hems:
a seductress sea
certain of its goal
buffed up against gusts
that take us back to where
we never were
...
a stealthy heron
stalks a sinking sun
while waders skim the waterline
to follow and feed
and all I bring
is a pen that sometimes
spells your name
in a lick of ink along a line
of tides swept in under mind
and over sand
flipping lacy hems:
a seductress sea
certain of its goal
buffed up against gusts
that take us back to where
we never were
...
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