the wind-fish
by and published in Edition Six of Pomegranate
For W.S. Merwin
as we clutch this dim sand
like something remembered
but slipping through our fingers
its cascade is a worm swallowed
by the western wind-fish
I wonder why
such a breeze
kept anglo-saxon lovers
apart
for who is he
to judge among the grain
who sweetly falls to
his brothers below
and which is kidnapped
by the sky
taken away to live
or die
or both
but the billows
keep racing from old cities
covered by dirt and water
then to places
I’ve never been
but perhaps you have
Adam Amberg
Adam Amberg is a 21-year-old student at Baylor University. His one-act play was awarded the National Gold Key for scriptwriting in 2005 by the Scholastic Corporation and a few of his poems and a short story have recently appeared in Reflect Magazine, in Waco, TX, a publication of Antioch Community Church. He is a strong supporter of the Oxford comma and thinks you should be too.