{"id":2822,"date":"2022-11-29T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2822"},"modified":"2022-11-29T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:28:48","slug":"sea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seashore

Where We Go by Andrea Damic<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sea<\/h1>\n

Kevin Griffin<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tell the sea what you\u2019re going to do: walk
\n<\/span>out to where your toes can no longer skim
\n<\/span>the rippled sand-bottom. Then fall, supine,
\n<\/span>to float in abeyance on crest and trough,
\n<\/span>past the rip currents, beyond the lifeguards.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, ears under water, you hear all
\n<\/span>that swims beneath while, eyes above, you see
\n<\/span>light at the point of refraction, sky blue
\n<\/span>and white light bending into another
\n<\/span>medium that holds you so soft and still<\/span><\/p>\n

until, after minutes, hours, years, decades,
\n<\/span>when you\u2019ve attracted no one\u2019s attention,
\n<\/span>you raise both arms. You arc, prone, towards shore,
\n<\/span>and you\u2019re so dead, so alive, that you lie:
\n<\/span>you\u2019ll never again turn your back on the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kevin Griffin <\/b>is an English and Creative Writing teacher at Detroit Catholic Central High School. He lives in Plymouth, Michigan, with his wife and sons. His first chapbook, <\/span>Line and Hook<\/span><\/i>, was published by the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. His poetry has appeared in <\/span>The Broad River Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Up North Lit<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Sheepshead Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Common Ground Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The MacGuffin<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Sand Hills Literary Magazine<\/span><\/i>, among other publications. He is currently at work on his second collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Andrea Damic<\/b> is an amateur photographer and author of micro fiction, flash fiction and poetry. She lives in Sydney, Australia. She has always loved capturing moments in life, from objects and nature to people and their interactions. Her photographs have been published or are forthcoming in Fusion Art\u2019s Exhibitions, <\/span>Door Is A Jar Magazine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Rejection Letters<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Piker Press<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Spillwords<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Verum Literary Press<\/span><\/i>. Her words have been published or are forthcoming in <\/span>50-Word Stories<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Paragraph Planet<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Dribble Drabble Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>50 Give or Take<\/span><\/i> (Vine Leaves Press) Anthology, <\/span>The Piker Press<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Centifictionist<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Spillwords<\/span><\/i> and elsewhere. You can find her on<\/span> https:\/\/linktr.ee\/damicandrea<\/span><\/a> and Twitter @DamicAndrea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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