Showing posts with label April Bernard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April Bernard. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

in a stolen boat







push off what seemed safe: The fishing dock,
pitch pines, children glazed to sheen
by ruthless summers. Past
 
the jetty, past the past, to open sea--
all violet and green, that choppy path between doom and luck--
Put your back into it, and row.
 
 
 

~ April Bernard

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