Meg Smith
Lowell, Mass. USA

 

Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass., USA. Her poetry, fiction and other writings have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, The Horror Zine, and many other publications and anthologies.  Her most recent poetry books -- Dear Deepest Ghost, This Scarlet Dancing and Night's Island -- are published by Emu Books, and available on Amazon.

Poem completed on 1st May 2020

 

The Sea Veil

For Laura Schiavoni Castine

For you in the sunlight

and the screen door,

as floral cotton flutters,

and the wishing well

beckons.

How much strength,

how much hunger.

How are we ever filled?

Due east, the copper light

unfolds over a 

secret ocean

we cannot know.

We cannot cross.

Everything is kept

in fathom for fathom.

But I do still

keep you,

I do still through

the gauze.

I do still keep

our depth,

and too, our flight.