|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Latest Collection, Circus Apprentice, selected as the Poetry Kit's "Book of the Month" Review on-line: May 2007
in collection Circus
Apprentice, 2006 Arc Publications, ISBN 1-904614-02-7 Keeper
You want me to be a lighthouse-keeper? Fine. I'll set myself up in a spiralled house with only books and the cat for company.
I'll learn how the sea looks turned inside out, how bird cries are thin winding scarves escaping.
I'll handle looking myself in the eye when I peer down the telescope, meet silences ragged as runaway clouds.
No one will know how I value the way the ships' lights radiate, how I long for their visits.
I'll stay my ground, teach people to keep their distance, maybe get to love this sea-life
drop my anchor, forget the city, its solidity, after the ribbed slip and slap of sea.
Katherine Gallagher
|
|
|
©
of
all poems featured on this site remains with the
poet |
