Friday, February 25, 2022

GAS Featured Poet: John Drudge

 


John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology.  He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019), The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.



Your Eyes


Making sense

Of where we are

In the low tides

And the high

Where truth

Churns in the jags

Against the rocks

On the shore

Along the coast

Where we parked

That night

In the fading moonlight

To watch the pain

Of insignificance

Dance

Across your eyes

 

 

Too Much the Night


Wound up

In the poetic crises

Of long nights

And short days

Estranged from touch

And taste

Where breathing rescues

And finds its cadence

In the brokenness

Of our ways

 

 

A New Summer


In a new summer

Of brief passing

He saw her that day

By the pool

Young and awakened

In the sweetness

Of profound anticipation

When their love

Was instant

And fresh

With an openness

To everything

Stirring

Blind to far reaching

Tomorrows

And lost

In a singular landscape

Of dreams

Mining the morning sun

For a smile

 

 

 

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