Poems by Jennifer Chapis
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Painting Oceanside
by Jennifer Chapis
Sunlight rocks a fallen paper cup.
Sunlight drenches the sea.
I can hardly believe
the other world in me tugging like certainty.
Someone nearby undresses
facing the ocean’s unconscious exhale—
Blind cloud of gulls. Whisper at the elbow of the undertow
folding into itself.
Perhaps one day a boat
free from its mooring
will carry the storm’s core home—
how questions make more sense
after breaking.
I will paint all the breezes
to believe the world.
Gut swears to
every last bone in the song
© Jennifer Chapis