circumnavigations

 

circumnavigations

  
a word can travel round the globe

or navigate the inches, lips to ears,
a whisper’s fetch.

meaning is resonance, displaced
palms

and says a bare simple phrase,

I found this stick, so wrote our
names in the sand.

a boat or fallen leaf will float
given even shallow draft.

look down, feel the tug

here is what waves carry
and hew

shore onto shore, lapping
the taste of salt wet toes.

is this all real someone asks?

yes, someone responds, here,
take this stick into your hand,

now, write your poem dear
big and round as the ocean is.
 
 

neil reid © january 2012