An Anniversary Poem from Far Away
I know people who ache
to be away from home,
gone to far places, who
feel alive only if climbing
the walls at Rhodes
or watching puffins fly
off the islands in Maine.
But you, my love, have given
life a flavor that stays
with me when I travel
to Greece or Maine, that makes
me long for our kitchen
where I could make coffee
or wash yesterday’s dishes.
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Keith Taylor has published poems in such places as Hanging Loose, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and many others. He published two books in 2024: All the Time You Want: Selected Poems with Dzanc Books; and What Can the Matter Be with Wayne State University Press.
Quietly lovely–thanks, Keith.