Andreas Gripp's new book of poems, Panthera Leo, is now available at the Harmonia Press Book Order Page. It will be launched at the September 6th, 2017 Reading Room Event at Huron County Library's Goderich Branch.
From Panthera Leo and other poems:
Marooning the Muse
We sat at the
beach together
but I didn’t
write a thing.
I looked to
the horizon
and its
meeting of sky and sea
and the
cerulean they both shared
at the point
where we see
the world is
round indeed.
You wrote of
sandpipers
on the strand
and the seagulls
encircling
the trawler
traversing
the harbour,
and I left
you the metaphors
to find
while I was lost in a reverie
that had
Magellan meeting
Eratosthenes
on the edge
of a precipice,
saying yes,
it’s all an illusion,
this vortex
of birds and their fish,
this looping
of ships and our poems.
©2017 by Andreas Gripp
The West Coast of Somewhere
As a boy, I
saw only sand and sea
and stones I
pitched with a splash
beneath the
shifting animal clouds
that I
envisioned.
As a single
young man
on a day of
sun and cirrus,
I knew
nothing of rocks
and waves
colliding with the shore,
only the
flash of skin and curves
exposed for
browning.
Now middle-aged
in wedlock,
ambling
along the beach
beside my
wife,
I see the
patterns on pebbles
and the
gulls that dip for trout
while the
crew of college girls,
jumping for frisbees in the surf,
are
supposedly a blur below
this cumulus
of savannah cats
overseeing their
great,
ephemeral
kingdom.
©2017 by Andreas Gripp
