We Are Two Boats Docked
By Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
On the pier, this light rope
clings us together floating
on this water, sometimes
turbulent but I know you
love them waves, at high
tide while I prefer tranquil
stillness of low tide, either
way we live for the sound
of glowing salty midnight
reflections, the water rippling
us closer, like two aging
paramours floating side
by side, when gazing
towards sunset at this isle
of view. Although my coat
has some rust, I love the days
when I can feel you quiver
with anticipation wanting
to sail off together, the ocean
opening before us like putting
ears to seashells, we can feel
our horizon amplify.
Josef Kote, Morning Serenity
Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of a poetry collection, Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions, from Unsolicited Press and a poetry chapbook, So Many Flowers, So Little Time, from Red Mare Press. His latest work Between the Spine is a collection of erotic love poems that will be published in 2019 by Picture Show Press. His poetry has been featured in Frontier Poetry, poeticdiversity, The Wild Word, The Fem, Pussy Magic Press, Rigorous, Palette Poetry, Rogue Agent Journal, Tin Lunchbox Review, Rhythm & Bones Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, Neon Mariposa Magazine, The Yellow Chair Review and Lunch Ticket’s Special Issue: Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch University Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing.
Editor’s note: Adrian’s poem will appear in a new release by Red Wolf Editions, Time Is A River Without Banks, an Ekphrastic Poetry edition. If you wish to submit, you can do so by end February 2019. Submit to redwolfeditions@gmail.com Submission guidelines here.
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