By Jeremiah K Durick
PROMPT — If only ...
There must be something here
Worth the effort
The time spent.
The foghorn goes off
Every two minutes
Reminding us
Where we are and
What it means.
This is a coastline
Far enough north that
It’s finally cool
Perhaps cold enough
To comment on.
They even warned
About icebergs.
There’s a whole Titanic thing
Hanging around in all this
Historic — women and children
First
While the band plays something
To fit the moment
“Nearer My God to Thee”
And we go down or
Just imagine that it might happen.
Perhaps that’s the something here
Waiting for us to discover
And spend the effort and time.
J. K. Durick is a retired writing teacher and online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Third Wednesday, Black Coffee Review, Literary Yard, Sparks of Calliope, Synchronized Chaos, Madswirl, Journal of Expressive Writing, Lightwood, and Highland Park Poetry. He writes from South Burlington, Vermont.
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