If we were oceans, blue would be the right color
to communicate a vast & churning desire
lonely for long distances & aching for a tremendous
shattering, palpable & bright, & by using this strategy
I am already five lines into this poem before
using the first person & you are the second person
I’m letting into this poem, this structured recovery,
except the difficulty is that all of this memory
overwhelms me & risks excluding the reader
while I drown lonely for the shore.
Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length books of poems - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). He works online with gifted students through Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, find him online at http://www.natepritts.com
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