Wave
POETRY
by Stan Sanvel Rubin
Shadows wave from the closet
like flowers in a forest.
There’s the front door
which also leads nowhere.
I could go out
but I’m pacing this room
trying not to remember
how the dog’s tail waved
when it wanted to get out.
I’m trying not to think
of what we had that won’t return.
Trying to remember old poems.
Stan Sanvel Rubin’s work has appeared in a number of journals including Agni, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Lumina, and La Piccioletta Barca in the United States, as well as others in China, Canada, and Ireland. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry. The most recent are There. Here., published by Lost Horse Press in 2013, and Hidden Sequel, which won the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize and was published by Barrow Street Press in 2008. A retired educator, Rubin lives on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.
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