Catskill Creek 1972
In a circle of time
the hills surround
the light low
the air cold
sliding down
ravine after ravine
we come to
no conclusions.
Beginning again
and again
in this cold cup
of the creek
rushing rapids
rocky backbones
nestled warm
and walking
and above the
eternal foe looms,
almost benign for us.
And still in the shadow
under a bridge
evening becomes night.
She dives
luminous Ophelia
carnal Circe
comes up
wet in the world
fresh cold
her magic mask
her broken innocence
graceful child
plays, swims
across.
She beckons;
we know what songs
she sings
and wide Troy
brought down
and bones bleaching
on the shoals.
Breathless from the cold
plunging deep
starting, crossing,
following
Previously published in Bulb Culture
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.
The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York.
In a circle of time
the hills surround
the light low
the air cold
sliding down
ravine after ravine
we come to
no conclusions.
Beginning again
and again
in this cold cup
of the creek
rushing rapids
rocky backbones
nestled warm
and walking
and above the
eternal foe looms,
almost benign for us.
And still in the shadow
under a bridge
evening becomes night.
She dives
luminous Ophelia
carnal Circe
comes up
wet in the world
fresh cold
her magic mask
her broken innocence
graceful child
plays, swims
across.
She beckons;
we know what songs
she sings
and wide Troy
brought down
and bones bleaching
on the shoals.
Breathless from the cold
plunging deep
starting, crossing,
following
Previously published in Bulb Culture
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.
The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York.
