What I Imagine When Someone Explains my Poetry to Me

He stands on a small rock

in the middle of a river;

the water rushes past

an obvious metaphor.

He ignores the danger,

and leaps the gap to land

on the next wet stone

barely within his compass;

And there, as he teeters,

searching for his balance,

he hears the falls hunger,

then is neither here, nor there,

but lost in the churning froth

of some other’s creation.

(September 6, 2020)