Day Cyclone
By Jill McCabe Johnson
Sky eddies swirl like the spinning dolphin
mad for his lover who watches in awe.
The tempest froths my surface skins,
and sprays torrents for Wind to scatter
into the puckered day.
Tomorrow calm.
Tomorrow the drifties.
“Day Cyclone” comes from a series of poems entitled “Diary of the One Swelling Sea.” In these persona poems, I imagined what the sea might say if he kept a journal. Each poem begins with the word “Day” to indicate the daily entries in his journal.
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Copyright Johnson 2012
Jill McCabe Johnson is the director of Artsmith, a nonprofit to support the arts. She is the recipient of the Paula Jones Gardiner Award in Poetry, and four Pushcart nominations for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Harpur Palate. She earned her MFA from Pacific Lutheran University, and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska. She is editor of the forthcoming anthologies from the University of Nebraska Gender Programs Becoming: What Makes a Woman, and Being: What Makes a Man.
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