A Place To Make Your Wishes All Come True
They never touched when others were around.
You had to find the presence in their eyes
of hunger. That’s how you knew, unless you chose
not to. Yesterday, they walked the sand
of this too flat beach just inside the line
the water leaves each time a wave withdraws.
Her hands shaped the air; he kept his gaze
fixed on the ground as if it might open
beneath each next step they took—and then it did.
I know you’ll think I’m back to my old ways,
but I’m clean, no dope and not a sip of booze
for the last ten years. This is where I stood
when the earth’s mouth gaped. They didn’t miss
a step, I swear. Then they were gone. Like this.
Richard
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Richard Jeffrey Newman
Associate Professor, English
Nassau Community College
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