GTimothy Gordon
Rites
-ending a death-poem line begun, but never sung,
by Satomura Joha (16thce. Japanese renga-poet)
Who can see but just
a little bit of sea
when the whole
pours over you
at dawn, skin glistening
with dreamy foam,
gulls’ eyes pulsing,
fixated, like Joha’s,
on faraway bone-dry
Mount Osaka.
GTimothy Gordon’s collection Dream Wind was published December 2019 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in AGNI, American Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, Mississippi Review, New York Quarterly, Phoebe, RHINO, Sonora Review, and Texas Observer, among others. Everything Speaking Chinese received the RiverStone Press Poetry Book Prize. Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts. Gordon divides professional and personal lives among Asia, the Southwest, and Maine.