April 2023
Scott Waters
scottishwaters@yahoo.com
scottishwaters@yahoo.com
Bio Note: I am a poet and songwriter living in Oakland, California. Over the past eight months I have found that it is possible to continue writing poetry even during a home remodel while living in 250 square feet of debris with two humans, one quasi-human (i.e. teenage boy) and two hyper-relaxed dogs who have very little space to defend. My previous poetic adventures have been published in such journals as Third Wednesday Magazine, Main Street Rag, and the Pacific Review.
Departure
They lived for generations
below the cave,
that grinning mouth
high in the thigh
of the sleeping mountain,
swaying ribbons of
cold ancestral water
slipping over mumbling grey lips,
tumbling hundreds of feet
and bursting like the wrapping
of a gift the rocks
could scarcely keep
their hands from
tearing open -- then
the quiet aftermath
of bouncing stream
emerging from the melee
and subsiding in a
winding, shining sigh
that visited each hut in turn
before departing
©2023 Scott Waters
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