!DOCTYPE html> html> head lang=”en-US”> title>Vestiges by A. Van Jordan/title> /div> h1 class=”pageTitle”>Vestiges/h1> div class=”entry-content clearfix”> h2 itemprop=”author” class=”author”>by A. Van Jordan/h2> div itemprop=”genre” id=”content”> div class=”taxonomy-images”>a href=”/a-van-jordan/poems.html” class=”taxonomy-image-links”>img itemprop=”image” src=”https://www.best-poems.net/files/imagecache/poet/category_pictures/A.%20Van%20Jordan.jpg” alt=”A. Van Jordan” title=”A. Van Jordan” width=”180″ height=”200″ class=”taxonomy-image-term-11067 taxonomy-image-vid-22″/>/a>/div>p>I would like to swim in the Atlantic,br /> to swim with someone who understoodbr /> why my fear of drowning plays less dire/p> p>than my fear of bones, walking the ocean floor.br /> I would like to sync my stroke with a beloved.br /> I’d like to stand on deck on a boat/p> p>and jump in the sea and say, follow me,br /> and know you would. The sea is coldbr /> and it’s deep, too, I’d joke,/p> p>standing at the edge of the boat’s bow.br /> A wind breathes across the sea,br /> joining gently the edges of time./p> p>With a dog paddling behind me,br /> I want to crawl across the waterbr /> without thinking about a future./p> p>I have set my eyes upon the shorebr /> and I hold you there—steady, in focus—br /> but let you go when, from below,/p> p>a voice breaks to the surface./p>/div> p>br /> br> /body> /html>
