Kissing Dynamite, Issue 38

I grew up landlocked in the prairies, and continue to live nowhere near a coast. Still…I miss the sea. This poem was inspired by a sleepless night where, due to a combination of insomnia and jet lag, the waves outside my window kept me up, incessant, refusing to cease their roar until morning. So much for the idea of being lulled off to dreamland by the sound of peaceful waves.

Read Tonight, I Do Not Love the Sea (and Questions I Ask the Shore) in Kissing Dynamite’s banging Issue 38: Sublunary.

Here,
a tree that once nursed
along this bank
now a body
returned
stripped of its bark,
half buried and clean
as bone.

“Tonight I Do Not Love the Sea (and Questions I Ask the Shore)” in Kissing Dynamite, Issue 38: Sublunary