A Mountain of Ocean

 

I huddle

on the shore

by the mountain

w/her grief

in my pocket,

 

fierce waves

salt my toes clean

of loose guilt.

 

Reasons explode

against her rejection,

 

it flows between

impotent complaints

I sputter to evoke,

but the mountain wins,

 

crumbles over my

best intentions

until her grief

is all that’s left.

Poets without Borders

Rod C. Stryker lives in San Antonio, Texas. He is the director of the Sun Poets Society. He administers the longest running poetry open mic in San Antonio.

Mr. Stryker’s most recent book, “Exploits of a Sun Poet” was published by St. Mary’s University’s Pecan Grove. Press.

In 2012 Rod C. Stryker was nominated for Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas.