I’ve been graced beyond measure,

I realize, sitting up late at night,

reflection dark in the window,

but lose the joy incessantly,

within moments

of arrival,

departure.

 

Sudden debate

among geese in the harbor.

Inside, furnace clears its throat,

breath of sleeping bodies stirs the air,

as the great flood of being engulfs

both center and circumference,

flinging itself recklessly,

into Douglas fir and woodpiles,

sea otters and water rats,

into the fatigue behind my eyes,

the clumsiness of fingers,

the separation I can’t quite span

to reach the desired bliss.

Yet even this frustration

holds the ridiculous truth:

that what I want is as close

as I am to myself.

 

Closer.

 

From “The Fulcrum: Selected Poems 2000 – 2010,” by Sam Rogers, copyright 2011

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