Casting Shadows

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Poetry

Startled awake

my wife listens

 

for a second cry

and sends me

into night.

In wet grass I stand

 

and shine

the long beam

 

of my flashlight

over the yard and up

 

into a tree that reaches

toward my house.

 

Her shadow swims

over gauze curtains

 

and suddenly I realize

I cannot swim.

 

Photo By: Thomas Quine

About The Author

Norman Minnick

Norman “Buzz” Minnick is a poet and playwright.

His second full-length collection, Folly, is published by Wind Publications. He is the author of To Taste the Water: Poems (Mid-List Press, 2007) and several chapbook collections including Two for the Cold, a collaborative work with Laurence Atwood, (Broadside Books, 2000) and The Overreacher (Broadside Books, 1998). He is the editor of Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century (White Pine Press, 2010). He has not yet written a play.

Minnick is not Poet-in-Residence at a university and he has not been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In fact, he has won no major awards.