17 February 2019

By Philip Kuepper

It begins to take on form,
then shape,
in my brain,
as it slowly becomes
a boat, to which
I affix the thought “boat.”

I, then, launch it,
here,
in the white
water of the page,
as the word “boat,”
where it lies at anchor
for the reader to board.

(2 February 2019)