Tuesday, January 03, 2006

This Year (response poem)

Yesterday,
the waves rolled
into one.

Ocean, ocean
where do you begin?


This year,
the sea
and a man of blank dreams.


5 comments:

Pris said...

I like this. I like the simplicity of the imagery and how it fits so well.

nancy said...

So succinct and so vivid. Well done, Jill.

nancy.

JC said...

thank you pris and nancy.

LKD said...

I kept misreading this line thusly:

Ocean, ocean,
where do you end?


Bravo on this, Jill. Your compression is just incredible.

Michelle M. Buchanan said...

Lovely.