Weathering
A poem by John Muro

Weathering

This blue lull of harbor, silvered by
an early summer sun, I have seen before,
a thing more akin to fire than water
that extends in spun pewter flourish,
then breaks apart and casts, in temporal
dazzle, sunlit splatter across the waves;
my small boat’s oars dimple a calmer
surface, though, as I drift towards
the open mouth of marsh and the
sinuous tidal creeks, glossy clay
shimmering in startling stillness,
and loose tangles of scrub festooned
with vines of wood-bine rising from
the viscous brine, fragrance melding
with the inlet’s loamy musk, certain
that whatever seeks an ending will
surely find a home here amidst this
soft wreckage and salt-stilled currents,
even as a sudden gust of off-shore
wind –in one of those rare, in-
between moments – scurried across
a sandbar and pilfered fragments
of shell and flecks of sand and
lifted them like a soul in search
of passage into the open air.

??????????

About the Author:

A resident of Connecticut, John Muro has published two volumes of poems – In the Lilac Hour and Pastoral Suite – in 2020 and 2022, respectively. Since that time, John has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a Best of the Net Award. More recently, he was one of two recipients for a 2023 Grantchester Award. John’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Acumen, Barnstorm, Delmarva, MORIA, River Heron, Sky Island and the Valparaiso Review.

Poetry Breakfast publishes a new poem every weekday morning.
If you’d like your poems considered for publication visit our Poetry Submissions page.

Follow Poetry Breakfast
Facebook