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| Kathleen Hellen |
Kathleen Hellen is the author of
the collection Umberto’s Night,
winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net, and featured on Poetry
Daily, her poems are widely published and have been awarded the Thomas Merton
poetry prize and prizes from the H.O.W.
Journal and Washington Square Review.
BAYSIDE
Winter: tar the pound
net. Fish with drift.
Words like relics.
I am renting summer with
the alefish, hardhead
tourists rip-rapped to
the tidal fringe, the pale
picture of a ship,
listing toward
imagination. The lost
art of hitch knots.
Empty rum and whiskey
bottles stow in overhead.
Across the lawn,
party lights in red and
white like Mardi Gras,
like Christmas lights in
perpetuity. Suddenly
lightening tears a
jagged seam in darkened mist.
A storm’s coming in. The
chicks
under wing, vulnerable.
I sit with pen and
paper, trying to decide the line
between the sky and sea.
No skiffs as far as I can see.
Spring: plant the
oysters.
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