Deep Gap

  

     a gap in the reef
     rocks asleep
     a shoal

     's recurrent thread
     gasping in
     a blue

     interval: it warrants
     the flowing
     adjectives

     issued otherwise, through
     a blue minute
     unspoken

     by breathing's deep
     rhythm and reef:
     the sums

     themselves prove life

 

 

 

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James Capozzi comes from New Jersey. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, New Republic, and elsewhere.