Firstly, I want to mention that I have been published in the online version of The Prose Poem Project (page 75, but I'm there, please check it out) and will be in the print version when it comes out later in the Fall! So exciting, my first shot at publication of any of my poems... well, my first successful shot, haha.
http://tinyurl.com/24mzcam
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Secondly, something new:
Don't let it fool you, the tide is tease
I want to stand exactly at the spot
where the sea meets the shore
but every time I think I'm there
it's just a little farther away.
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Thirdly, another new one:
when i sat on a secluded beach and
watched city island from afar
the quiet is broken only by a gull's shriek
and the sand is littered with little shells,
speckled pebbles, and a plastic spoon.
and a sailboat's mast toppled to the ground
and mossing over. everything finds its way
back to nature sometime. the waves
wash against the shore like tiny mouths,
aching with hunger, always wanting
just a little more. the ocean salt
stings the throat. the air reeks with the sour
fishy stench of a beach left unkempt.
an old man reels in his catch and says
he likes my sneakers because he had
the same ones when he was seventeen
and he didn't know they still made them.
from here, city island looks like i could hold it
in my palm. maybe i won't even cross
the bridge and enter. i'll just keep resting
on this uneven rock and leave the land
lying in the distance like a postcard scene,
inviting and perfect and untouchable. maybe
that's how i should have left you, too.
1 comment:
3 Very good pieces Chris. I like the published one. Feels good to see your name on a piece someone else had to select doesn't it? Congratulations.
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