rogue waves by Edward L. Canavan

holding forth with open arms

longing unreturned

like a quiet strangeness

cast in the shadows of the sun

cornered somewhere between tenses

in the gray hollow of suspended occurrence

tides signaling turn after turn

far from the sickeningly crowded shores.

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Edward L. Canavan is an American poet whose work has most recently been published in Harbinger Asylum, Poetry Quarterly, and Spillwords. His second poetry collection entitled "Protest and Isolation" was released by Cyberwit Press in July 2020. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he currently resides in North Hollywood,California, where he practices Buddhism and listens to Bad Brains.