PF detail from Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Beach Scene, Guernsey (Children by the Sea in Guernsey) - 1883;
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Craig Colin Smith

 

After a much-too-long career in technical writing, Craig Colin Smith now just wants to make things up. He is working on a novel of speculative fiction tentatively titled, Fault of the Orphans. He is also working on a collection of poetry as yet untitled. When not writing, he reads anything and everything but returns again and again to Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, and eighteenth-century history.


 

Tides 

Call moon, call water, call love.
Essential has a simple, not single, name
and forever needs another:
form mouth, form hands to form the things
that form the time to come.
If moon: try crescents and wax and wane
the phases of lunacy and tides.
If water: try swallows and tears and falls
the increase of erosion and tides.
If love: try moonlight and seas and lost
the never of forever and tides.
Essential has a single, not simple, name
and never needs no other:
form mouth, form hands to form the things
that form the time to go.
Call love, call water, call moon.