UPCOMING PRATIK RED WHEELBARROW POETS SEGMENT: DONALD ZIRILLI'S "IF THERE IS AN OCEAN IT IS HERE"

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets

 IN PRATIK MAGAZINE

 

DONALD ZIRILLI

 

 

IF THERE IS AN OCEAN IT IS HERE

 

I borrow Spring and All

with a bookmark already in it,

after the new introduction

by C. D. Wright.

 

I move the bookmark

to the red wheel barrow

before I give it back.

 

I go to the high school graduation

of my eldest niece. She is tall,

and in that blue gown,

papery.

 

I hug her but I should be

shaking her hand,

but that’s too like good-bye,

but so is holding on.

 

 

Donald Zirilli was a finalist for the James Tate Prize and a nominee for Best of the Net and the Forward Prize. He edited Now Culture and is on the board of Red Wheelbarrow Poets, Inc. His poetry was published in The 2River View, Anti- poetry magazine, ART TIMES, Nerve Lantern, River Styx, and other periodicals and anthologies. His chapbook, Heaven’s Not For You, was published by Kelsay Books.

 

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets is a collective of poets based in Rutherford, NJ, the hometown of the beloved American poet and doctor, William Carlos Williams.