Unknown Destination
People walk, ride bikes
on the asphalt path near the river.
Life circles around me
while I wear you like extra skin,
a coat stitched with grief.
Your death unexpected,
you’ve passed on to where?
I rush to the riverbank,
listen to the muddy water
sigh & moan, gaze
at the choppy ripples,
no reflection,
murky depth unknown.
Barges slow dance their way
to the next destination.
Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in The Literary Nest, Rat’s Ass Review, As It Ought To Be, The Beatnik Cowboy, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, One Art, The Loch Raven Review, Panoply, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best New Poets nominee. Her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.
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