POETRY

Dear Samuel (Can I Call You Sam?)

National Poetry Month Letters to Poets Series

Medium format film image by author

Where in Xanadu,
tormented soul,
could you
now be found whole?
With all of life’s blue
problems washed away,
in white robes
whose hopes
blossomed like a new day
evermore
from the shore
waving. Bowl
upon golden
bowl takes its toll.
So shipwrecked,
the serpent’s chase;
his hiss, amiss,
his bite…