by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Since what we see depends on where we sitand dawn’s walk to the seais only half-lit since what we hear is no pinpoint soundbut millions of waves echoing round since what we think is a salvaged assemblageof recallreaction and self-satisfaction then where are we?what...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Find the scarfnot soaked in my tears find the scarfnot hung upon the linefor the sunnot yet risento restore by evaporationto the realm of the living find me! for I toonot yet ready to forgetas I shrivel in the night and the cruel morning I toohangand am blownby your...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
To J.F. I will turn myselflike a Tibetan prayer wheeleach discrete revolutiondispatching spirit to the heavens turn myselfwith eyes shut to the sentient worldno feelingno temperatureno pain or come to restmotionless upon the miraculous meadowwhose grasses speakin...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Marooned on islandseach populated by oneappearing as specks on the horizonto one anotherknowledge of lifeunattainablesea mingling with seaturtle visits allturtle paddles to shorecapable of eye contacta messenger with no messageknowledge of lifeunreachablesun and sky...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
I never existedbut that doesn’t mean I am any less interestingthan the next guyI never grew in the forestnever fellI was never observed nor huggednor nested inchopped downburned by firestruck by lighteningnor climbed by squirrelsbut I am giving all of thatserious...
