An unseen hand
tilts the earth,
dousing the last fires
glowing in the west.
As the fine line between
sky and land disappears,
my little skiff dissolves
in the deepening darkness.
I pole across the shoal
to where my net lies
bobbing in the water,
gliding among the stars
that swirl around me,
traveling in a silence
broken only
by the splash
of a fish.
Richard Lebovitz is a former college and high school teacher as well as editor and editorial director for a variety of consumer and B2B media companies. His poetry springs from his desire to seize on and share those fleeting moments of beauty the natural world delivers to our doorsteps.
