Voyage

Water opens without end
At the bow of a ship
Rising to descend
Away from it

Days become one
I am who I was

From The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House Publishers, 2000), copyright © Samuel Menashe 2000, used by permission of The Library of America for the Estate of the author.

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