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Winter 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 1 • Poetry |

Poem

February 8, 2011

Wave-battered, ice-bound, at last the long 
night-shadows retreat. 

Salt and fresh water mix here in the unruly way 
thirst and satiation commingle. 

Torn from an imagined home 
I disembark on this foreign bay 
where swans sleep next to migrating geese, 

the one leaving, 

the one staying.

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