Archive for July 3rd, 2008

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

“Buoy” by Debra Marquart

Debra Marquart
BUOY
And so you came to realize that a married man
is like a drowning victim, when you find him
drenched, adrift and unhappy in the vast ocean
of his marriage. And you are always the first
to spot him, a floating speck on the horizon,
flapping his arms for rescue, desperate mouth
ringing an o above the rolling crests and [...]

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