Full of Submissiveness and Starlight
My
daughter leaves today for the ocean,
her housebound father
behind.
Can I picture her eyes widening at the
seeming infinity of it? Can
I smell
the brack even from here, a river
city,
hopelessly landlocked? I say
to her as
she gets in the car, tell the
ocean hi for
me. She twirls and smiles
and says,
I will, daddy. And she leaves me
aching,
here where I keep the history
our hearts
make, here in my cage-like
home, waves
washing over me, anxiety, loneliness.
