Visitation (June's Featured Poet)
Avron Soyer

 

1

I cannot leave this room unless you spell me

Outside these windows

Outside the circle
Of this ceaseless sleepless vigil

Rain has been falling now
For either hours or days…

Sounds of an ocean that the rain embraces
Between each house each person each apartment

2

On this island
You appear each morning
Untouched by wet gray moods and shadows

You are the only one who ever visits

3

Sometimes
I
Forget
Enabling winds of commerce

Dream
Romances

Imagine
Intimate
Design

Yet

Unembellished
Straight

It is a wonder

That you
Not some anonymous other

Are born to us
Each sunrise
From the sleepless ocean.

By Avron Soyer