Santa Fe Poetry Broadside
skip navigation links Issue #22/23, October, 2001 : The Year We Uninvented the Rose -- -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13  14
      Constancy of the Moon -- -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12
Return -- Previous

Judyth Hill

                 

You Can Imagine

how I care
for edge.

The clouds, for instance,
Their fervent loosening --
How I long to learn that!

The blue between, where the constant dissembling occurs,
A practice I would emulate.

Moisture I long for -- my skin grown tight.
A dock, a wharf, the sails furled, but luffing in the rising breeze --
What would I give for the salt air, the mineral waters?

I was born to come in on a swell, pulling out hard.
I was born to roll in with the surf,
Becoming what is left behind,
Then, what is gathered in.



Copyright © 2001 Judyth Hill.

About the poet.

Return -- Previous
Issue #22/23, October, 2001 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.