into tomorrow…

Rocks and ripples

I tossed that rock far out,

in the middle,

not as far as I could throw,

but out there,

and then I watched the ripples,

in a wind-shaped circle,

fading to dimples soon enough

but not quite wiffling into nothing,

and I could see, for a moment,

how that rounding pulse

would keep going

after I turned away…

August 22, 2019

Inspired by “Read my rocks” by Ellie Shumaker, age 13

in 2019 Rattle Young Poets Anthology

My poem “Rocks and ripples” was published in my fourth collection of 55 poems, As with another eye: Poems of exactitude.

You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),

or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”

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