Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire
This week’s poem is by Mark Melnicove of Falmouth and celebrates the power of imagination.
The Sea Is What He Gathers
By Mark Melnicove
A boy who lived inland at mountain’s edge wanted
to see the sea.
He could not drive a car; his parents said, The sea?
It is too far, too far.
Disappointed, he ran out the screen door to the garden
where he peered
at distant ridges, to imagine what waved beyond them.
Then, it began to rain.
Cupping his hands, he gathered drop by drop a new
sea surrounded by his flesh.
Swimming there, fishes and whales brushed their lips
ever so softly over the lines of his palms.
Dennis Camire can be reached at [email protected]
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