My poem ‘Between the House and the Sea' has tied for First Place in the 2022 Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest. I will be reading it live in Lincoln, California on Sunday, October 16th. Here is the poem:
Between the House and the Sea
Through water so transparent
you only know it's there
because it glints in the setting sun,
you glimpse pebbles gleaming
in the creek bed.
The frigid crystallinity
of this February evening,
like the light of your mind,
cannot grasp the question
of who you are, standing here
as unmoving as a bubble in an icicle.
Behind you, the house glowers
down the landscape from darkened
windows that tell no secrets.
In front of you, the bay booms
its wintry dirge. And even farther
beyond, the Pacific stretches west,
to spill unseen over the horizon.
At your feet, the icy stream asks,
Why do you stand here,
between the shrouded house
and the endless sea?