Sunday, February 13, 2022

a grievance with the long island sound

crop circles of eddies 

kissed kindly into the 

neuston by immigrant

winds bring slow,

salted currents


a star overhead in its

fixture blinks with

an admiration endemic 

to the space between 

the peninsular part of

New York and a  

desperate stretch of 

land called Connecticut


either way, dancing 

plumes of lights scour

the bight's surface, 

as though the entire

body were held up

by paper lanterns 

anchored to the shores


a few barber shop 

poles stick out of the 

land like tent stakes


a ferry peels back

waves with incredible

force


a saline thought

is punctuated by

a cormorant's croak


and

more than once,

the thought of you

has brushed past my 

shoulder


much like a trade wind

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