February 2018
Gary Glauber
gigwords@gmail.com
gigwords@gmail.com
I am a teacher and a poet. I am frustrated by politics, appalled by this rise in lying, and moved by music. I have two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), as well as a chapbook, Memory Meets Desire (Finishing Line Press). All of these can be found on Amazon. I also took part in the 7th annual NYC Poetry Festival this past summer on Governor's Island.
Capsized
Winter stole the river’s primal significance,
but his duty remained to note what drifted by.
Smokestacks abandoned upstream were
his silent accomplices: watching, waiting.
In the semi-still waters, he could
see his reflection, hair silvering
on the edges, like his father before him.
Those same intense eyes burned
whenever told what to do directly,
but now the fire smoldered less.
The end of his youth was floating
in front of his eyes, dreams carried
by weak current into the swirling eddy
that might be the rest of his life.
The lone spectator contemplated
this river of his ancestors, & skipped stones
to escape hard lessons before him.
First published in Stone Path Review
Capsized
Winter stole the river’s primal significance,
but his duty remained to note what drifted by.
Smokestacks abandoned upstream were
his silent accomplices: watching, waiting.
In the semi-still waters, he could
see his reflection, hair silvering
on the edges, like his father before him.
Those same intense eyes burned
whenever told what to do directly,
but now the fire smoldered less.
The end of his youth was floating
in front of his eyes, dreams carried
by weak current into the swirling eddy
that might be the rest of his life.
The lone spectator contemplated
this river of his ancestors, & skipped stones
to escape hard lessons before him.
First published in Stone Path Review
2018 Gary Glauber
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