Pelagic
On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue,
d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
–André Gide
We took the littoral road, expecting, I suppose
a conclusion, a close-hauled reach.
Look, sometimes a great ocean
is just across the beach.
Recent work by Bruce Robinson appears or is forthcoming in Seventh Quarry, Pangyrus, Résonance, The Menteur, Main Street Rag, Connecticut River Review, Maintenant, Evening Street Review, Rattle, the TL;DR Hope anthology, and Spoon River Poetry Review. poetsbridge.org/manivelle