The Poems of David Garlick
The noon sun shone from a cloudless sky, making brilliant points of light, diamonds on the ruffled waters. Perhaps the seeds that stars grow from to fill the nights sky, when the sun sleeps and the moon hides her face. Later the sun melted and ran like butter on the sea. Golden splotches stretched […]
Softly, softly, softly and now we are old! Where did all those years go? They were filled with seconds, minutes, days, weeks and months. Each, at the time, so important but now lost in forgetfulness. Strange how the mind censures the bad, leaving only the bright and positive. Those shadows are still there but […]
There are never any covers in the cupboard for those plastic bowls, one keeps the left overs in, to eat another time. I’m told that they are in there but however hard I look for them, they always seem to hide from me or change their plastic size. Perhaps there is a an island […]
Part One, trying to get there! We left, as the gray dawn light, was touched with glints of gold. Spruce trees, black along the shore. A Southeaster, blew bitterly cold! The Genoa, crackled a greeting. The wake, followed, marble white. The burgee, waved at seabirds. Our spirits, joined them in flight. Demelza shouldered […]