Michael Gessner Verse-Virtual 2017 July

July 2017

I live in Tucson with my wife Jane, a watercolorist, and with our dog, Irish. Our son Chris, writes for screen in L.A. My more recent work has appeared in The North American Review, The French Literary Review, Verse Daily, and others. My most recent collections are Transversales (BlazeVOX, 2013,) and Selected Poems (FutureCycle, 2016).

Aubade,
Aquamarine

Idylls float in Aegean mist
like statues. My visit
among them is a ghost
marriage in sea spray,
among the myths
of morning, where futures
mumble like underwater
speech, amiable, emerging,
as if we never knew
the promise of myths,
floating bodies full of day.

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