Faraway Nearby, The

Hudson Review, The, Winter 2008 by Bonnell, Paula

I could live in the next life

if only I could get to it

Driving onto the promontory

again and again, I visit the screened porch

sleep in new-washed sheets

drink the breeze

and depart across the grilled

pause in the road

that is the bridge. I look quickly

to left or right-is it high

or low tide? when will

I return to swim in it?

instead of bathing

in my sweat, laboring

to get here. I mean,

to get there for I remain

mired in the city of tasks,

always something urgent

presented unexpectedly

at the very moment of departure.

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Oh, the summer of voices, the presence

of the grass, the suggestion

of wings in the moving

leaves as I leave-over

and over again-when I long

to arrive and stay.

PAULA BONNELL's* book, Airs & Voices, will be published by BkMk Press in April. . . .

*Asterisk indicates a new contributor.