This morning

I read Auden

and his account of

Icarus plunging into

the apathetic sea,

while I sat in

a rocking chair

sipping coffee

cooled by milk

that was nearing

its expiration date.

 

Auden has been

dead for decades

and the sea remains

unimpressed

by us all.

 

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Steve Brightman lives in Kent, OH, and frequently worships at PNC park, the finest cathedral in North America. His poems have been featured in Pudding House, Origami Condom, A Trunk of Delirium and he was included in the Ohio Bicentennial Anthology titled "I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems about Ohio."