Sleepless once again
I use
the Sturgeon Moon

to pick my way
through a landscape,
strewn with boulders

that overlooks the sea.
I head for one called Poseidon’s Throne
so I might rule the waves,

but I’ve caught the sea
at turn of tide
and for a short while

time stands still,
and I stare
at nothing at all.

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Steve Deutsch is poetry editor of Centered Magazine and was the first poet in residence at the Bellefonte Art Museum. He has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes multiple times. He has six volumes of Poetry. One, Brooklyn, won the Sinclair Poetry Prize.