Outspread of the gradual sun over ocean Jersey Quakertown
Dawn salutations on the three-note ringing of a bell
Reading Dogen then intreating the Muse of South Mountain
Black coffee as my love comes slowly down the hall
Sunflash on brown in the lower woods a doe her fawn
Clearing the garden of the fallen the overgrown the dead
The sinuous Delaware swelled by Mayunceasing rain
Tunnels of treeshade along southbound River Road
The brightlit bookstore Ed Hirsch out back mixing memory
and meshugas His listeners lovely laughing wistful
The unexpected presence of that good man Ross Gay
The river golden on return waters lifting to a golden mist
Late dinner crescent moon late turning to each other the deep
night deepening further the slow unspooling of unbroken sleep
by Steve Myers
Steve Myers has published a full-length collection, Memory’s Dog, and three chapbooks. A Pushcart Prize winner, he has published poems in journals including Callaloo, New Ohio Review, Presence, The Southern Review, and Valley Voices. He mentors students in the poetry track for the MFA in Creative Writing at DeSales University.
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