We are all, in some sense,
bound east for Cardiff–
our lives fading
in some dingy hold–
holding some dingy hand
we barely knew.
We die alone on a vast sea–
a part of its endless motion,
but never in view of it.
Michael J. Galko was a finalist in the 2020 Naugatuck River Review and the 2022 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contests. Recent poems appear in Stillwater Review, Cagibi, Eclectica, Rappahannock Review, Cordite Poetry Review (Australia), and Fourth River Poetry, among other journals.
