“3 AM Meditation” by Steve Wilson

Richard Bosman, Drowning Man, 1981, woodcut on paper. Collection of the Maier Museum of Art, founded as Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

after Richard Bosman’s Drowning Man

– ghost, river
of motion,
I am

drowned,
downed
enough

to let it go,
go dark:
its syllables

of loss,
long roads
winding out –

Steve Wilson’s poetry has appeared in journals nationwide; in many anthologies; as well as in three collections, the most recent entitled The Lost Seventh. He teaches at Texas State University, and can be reached at sw13@txstate.edu