Do You Feel Me?
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First, wild lotus on the surface of blue water, the great blue heron striking the ways. I need to find myself, I told myself. To live the limits of this body.
Then, I invented “you.” Like a bridge between two distances, you guided me: here, fields of the expansive, wild clover. My hands, my feet. There,
fields of gray water. You who increasingly made me conscious of myself, continue. Listen to me when I say I will cross into Jordan.
Swamp lilies in the camplight, the moonlight opening like a kiss. This is what happens when any two things meet: some water, a city enveloped, blue—.
How each becomes the revelation of what the other can do.
Rickey Laurentiis, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, is studying for the MFA in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in jubilat, Indiana Review, Tidal Basin Review, and many other journals.
Footnotes
* After the painting by Dave McKenzie. [End Page 998]
