With Every Whim of Waves – a poem by Robin Wright

With Every Whim of Waves
 
A bottle washed up on the shore,
sand greeting it with a hug.
 
Message inside says,
I’ll love you forever
 
I wonder if it’s meant
for the ocean.
 
Surely, if for a human, the message 
would be delivered directly
 
by a soft whisper-like voice,
slipping up next to the ear
 
of the beloved, but if meant
for the water what better way
 
than enclosed in a bottle
that will tumble & float.
 

Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in Amethyst Review, 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.