July 2023
Irving Feldman
flefty@gmail.com
Bio Note: Born and raised in Coney Island, I'm a Coney Island patriot. And squash racquets fanatic. My headstone is to read, "One More Game?" Recent books include: Collected Poems 1954-2004 Schocken Books 2004, and Usable Truths: Aphorisms & Observations, Waywiser Press 2019. My readings of some of my poems can be found HERE

Testing the Waters

Daylong and then in dreams this testing
the waters—how swift, sweet, thick the course
of things, how cool, consistent, various,
and what the current bears, or bypasses—
so that we can go on and on in the swim
and still be staunch and other than this flowing:
not carried away, not left behind.
©2023 Irving Feldman
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