in the quiet of my Tallahassee living room.
for as I like to say:
I like the ocean except for the sun,
sand, and salt water. In my old age,
I love a spring, or even a city pool,
filled with old people soaking and kids
squealing and splashing and having to be
told to not run on the wet concrete deck.
This ocean I smell is from over fifty years ago,
where two young boys played in the blue green water
and snow white sand, standing alternatively
in the knee deep water
and standing against a chest high breaker.
Doing this for hours at a time,
sun burning, and freckled all over,
so thirsty, but not wanting to get out
and cross 98 to the kitchenette where
Mama had us cold bottles of Coca Cola.
About anthonyuplandpoetwatkins
https://www.goodreads.com/AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins
born
in Jackson, The United States
August 04, 1959
gender
male
website
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genre
Poetry, Historical Fiction
influences
James M. Lancaster, Brenda Black White, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Al Filreis
member since
March 2011
About this author
Publishers of Better than Starbucks: betterthanstarbucks.org
There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.
Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.
My luck continued with a win in the June Goodreads Newsletter Contest! What an honor!
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Additional Influences: Bob Dylan, William Faulkner, Barbara Kingsolver, Gloria Naylor, Eudora Welty