The Poems of David Garlick
Ripples laced with blue and green. Hulls reflected, quivering. Trees that cling to crumbling cliffs, etched by rain and sun and waves. Tapestries of living rock, hung beside round, powdering caves; where birds have nested through all time, their stains of white a history. Seals, like logs, along the shore. Cormorants dive, to catch a […]
Alone, in this place of peace, silence drifted through my mind. Snow flakes in the wintertime, blossoms in the early spring. Koi mouthed rings upon the lake. White crane waited on one leg in the image of the temple’s – gold reflection on the water. Under willows, head bowed low, mossy banks soft to the […]
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 […]
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 […]