SENTENCES (II) | GwI

Written by Nate Pritts

Friday, 25 June 2010 06:39 - Last Updated Friday, 25 June 2010 06:45

If we were oceans, blue would be the right color

to communicate a vast & churning desire

lonely for long distances & aching for a tremendous

shattering, palpable & bright, & by using this strategy

I am already five lines into this poem before

using the first person & you are the second person

I’m letting into this poem, this structured recovery,

except the difficulty is that all of this memory

overwhelms me & risks excluding the reader

while I drown lonely for the shore.

Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length books of poems - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper
Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational
Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007).  He works online with gifted students through Johns Hopkins
University’s Center for Talented Youth.  The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, find him
online at http://www.natepritts.com

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Written by Nate Pritts

Friday, 25 June 2010 06:39 - Last Updated Friday, 25 June 2010 06:45

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