Time smoothes rainbow hardness
Of tree basalt, vermillion jasper,
Silvery granite and pale feldspar
With the help of humdrum
But patient jeweller of tides;
Volcano-born, earthquake-quarried,
Heat-cracked, wind-carved,
Death shapes compact among the rocks;
It drifts light as a fractured bone
When the tide uncovers,
It blinks among the smashed shells,
Upset by gulls, bleached by salt and sun
The broken crockery of living things;
An eagle surveys from the upland,
Unsympathetic to the burdens
I have carried here;
The sea would not hug me, so I sit,
Hollow as driftwood, jumbled as pebbles
Sandeep Kumar Mishra is a writer, poet, and lecturer in Political Science and English Literature. Last year his work published in more than 50 national and international magazines. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002) and written a professional guidebook How to be (2016).
ISSUE FIFTEEN: Lastly, My Seer
Michael Albright
Because of your problem,
do you often feel others
have no idea what you are going through?
Emily Rosello Mercurio
Sunny Honey
Rose Knapp
Socio-EFascismo
Rachel Mindell
Life as we know it
Kathleen E. Krause
Digging Digits
Kristie Betts Letter
Montana Wildhack Read Aloud
Sandeep Kumar Mishra
Pebbles
Daniel Romo
Diplomacy
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios
See Saw Margery Daw
Nate Maxson
Patient Zero
Alec Hershman
The Point of Vanishing