I’ll tell everything to the gulls when they swoop and settle in the sand. I’ll give them something to peck and discard among the grassy dunes and between the warping boardwalk cracks. The pier breathes in creaks and cracks, mottled white by salt and sun and summer visitors strolling between the soaking seaweed strands. And [...]
And when I looked at the clouds today, every one was a familiar shape. Rabbits and birds coalesced from sea vapor, morphed and dissipated and hopped across the air currents. Their jumping knocked loose a smattering of cloud drops which landed, thick and white, on my windshield. And when I looked at the stars tonight, [...]
A belated graduation poem for Roshan Shah I. The skipping of the kite spool through your slim fingers left faint troughs in your palms. They were filled to the brims with the utter blue of spring skies and sunlight speckled with pollen. I could feel it sifting through my skin, in my hair, in the [...]