Again

Poetry
Written By Joshua Wait

by Sammy Bellin

Meet up, you say
when the snowflakes melt on ruby cheeks
like kisses stolen from breathless dreams
and we will be whole again.

Meet by the elm tree, you say
when the leaves blaze in a riotous bonfire
by the Methodist church with its rising spire
and we will fall in love again.

Meet down at the river, you say
when the banks recede and children swim
we’ll watch the azure skies fill with heron 
and we will sing again.

Meet in the fields, you say
when the hyacinths wake from their slumber
drowsy bulbs full of sun and soft thunder
and we will dream again.

Sammy Bellin lives in Lewisburg, PA. His poetry appears in Rust & Moth, wildscape. literary journal, Barely South Review, Shot Glass Journal, Sontag Mag, Crab Apple Literary, and more. He likes to buy more books than he can read. You can find him on Instagram @sammyabellin.

Joshua Wait

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.

https://www.bluerivers.org
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