Anthony Gee
Detritus
The tooth of a shark and
smooth green glass and
the tide will come back in
for you,
and the blue stinging bottle
is a heart discarded
but the tide will come back in
for you, and
floating bones and
jewels for fools and
hollow shells that
never were filled and
scoured by years and
by waves of tears,
the tide will come back in
for you.The cloud that has crashed and
the boat that's been smashed-
the tide will come back in
for you, and
the corroded, dull hook that
no fish ever took-
the tide will come back in
for you, and
the watches and keys and coins and
whispers of words that never
quite reached the ear,
the things that are lost are
collected by ghosts
and the tide will come back in
for you.The drifting blue buoy inhaled by the river-
the tide will come back in for you,
beached on a shoal and ripped by the rocks-
the tide will come back in for you,
old Mangrove Jack and Moses Perch and
the aimless drift of the
sea urchin's search,
all the trinkets that have been spat back to earth-
the tide will come back in for you.
Bio:
Anthony Gee is the lighthouse keeper on a rocky shore of broken tourists, otherwise known as the east coast of Australia. By day he does various menial, yet character building jobs and by night he writes poems and short stories. Anthony fears nothing save for big cockroaches and blank sheets of paper. His poetry has been published in such journals as New Graffiti, Ygdrasil, and Thick With Conviction. His favourite colour is probably the same as yours. You can write him or smite him at: gee733@hotmail.com.
