by AJ Saur
And, yet, I stand at the end of this pier
in ovation of the horizon—its long stretch
of periphery, the far wings of a seagull
from which you are certain to emerge in a bow
of catamaran or rowboat. My mates will clap
my back exclaiming, What faith! What solitary vision!
before I ride my runabout out to embrace you
as one returned home from captivity, from some other
land where you were chained to a rock, exposed
to the elements, spent every day peering through the mist—
clear-eyed about what you missed.
AJ Saur is the author of five books of poetry from Murmuration Press including, most recently, Of Bone and Pinion (2022). AJ’s poems have also appeared in Abandoned Mine, Front Range Review, Glimpse, The Midwest Quarterly, Muse, Third Wednesday, Willow Review, and other journals.
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