your flash of green
shimmering
amidst orange reeds
the pond at dusk
small, damp virtuoso,
for nearly twenty minutes,
your elastic solo
the sheen of porchlight
a rectangle
of still water
you crouch
spring
leap
through lily notes
plop and vanish
a pulse in the mud’s hush,
half throat, half ripple
Joshua Wait studied English at UC Berkeley. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the relationship between art and poetry in the New York School. He received a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served in programs for children, youth, and college students, in an organization addressing climate change, and in the tech industry as a CTO. He currently divides his time between his family and his artistic practice.
