“As If from the Sea” by C. Dale Young
Poetry faculty member C. Dale Young was recently featured in Poetry Magazine. Read an excerpt of “As if from the Sea” below:
As If from the Sea
Because this is a dream, the beach is completely
empty, and not a single person can be seen
swimming in the bay. And so, I swim as God intended,
au natural, naked or, as we said when we were kids,
nekkid. This nekkidness is the one aspect that happens
in dream as well as in waking life, but that is, well,
irrelevant. This isn’t a poem about me swimming
nekkid. I mean, let’s be real, I have some standards.
But the sea is calm, almost like a lake, and the water
is so clear it is easy to make out small fish darting
in little clusters nearby. The whole thing is so
goddamned peaceful and blissy.
Continue reading and listen to the recording here: As If from the Sea by C. Dale Young | Poetry Magazine
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