I know how to cut grass and be quiet.
I disdain myself.
And that spare all around me.
It looks so much bigger than me
Except what Sarah gave me on Sugar Beach.
So you’re my friends—peaceful people—
We’ll get lost on the way back.

 

Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York, grew-up in Michigan, and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals in the U.S., France, Italy, the Czech Republic, the U.K., Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, India, and Ireland. Books include The Aroma of Toast.