2024.
Hi Paul:
About 12 years ago, I was walking on the shore at Ocean Grove early in the morning, when I saw something in the surf nearby that gave me an insight into my work. Here is “Whirl of Hunger,” from my 2008 poetry collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
The Great Falls. Paterson, New Jersey. By Paul Goldfinger c. 2013. Click once to seek “the shapes that sustain” the poet.
Whirl of Hunger
By Charles Pierre
Just as a gull dips its wing
to a sudden rush of wind
and pivots on the whitecap,
extending its open beak to some
bit of the sea’s sustenance,
so I hover within this poem,
balanced only on a salt gust,
turning in a whirl of hunger,
as I stretch to the wave-tip
for the shapes that sustain me.
BILL FRISELL “The Shadow of Your Smile”