David Ray The Waves Where the waves show their teeth the way Hokusai made them or saw them You point, just two years old now, and say, "Here comes another one!" You speak with particular reverence for just that wave, Giving me a moment I can take to the next world. David Ray, Music of Time: Selected and New Poems, The Backwaters Press, 2006. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
The Waves
Where the waves show their teeth the way Hokusai made them or saw them You point, just two years old now, and say, "Here comes another one!" You speak with particular reverence for just that wave, Giving me a moment I can take to the next world.
David Ray, Music of Time: Selected and New Poems, The Backwaters Press, 2006.