My lastest poem in The New Yorker is a lament for the erosion of opportunities for solitude and quietism in contemporary life and a wish for their restoration while meditating on the seascape of the Mediterranean off the coast of Cassis, France.
“On Emptiness”
“If only I could stand the infinite measures, wait long enough, / and not waste their buoyant resolve.”
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