Dark Blue Grass by Ned Baeck

Poem title: Dark Blue Grass Poet name: Ned Baeck Poem: There is a bird in my eye in my skull in my chest in a tear drop in the violence of this world that countenances and confounds loss there is a bird there is flight without content in my pupil in the contracted darkness in the cave of my heart there is a bird knowing was in the confusion where the sacred body stumbled into cold stone on the beach on the Newfoundland coast where I was drunk through the night with the others and found myself on a boulder a way’s off at dawn waking up, not knowing how long I’d been sleeping the sound of waves breaking the others still gathered still talking in the dawn light but quieter now the ether wearing off, drifting still awake faces drained eyes wan Julia was there we held hands as we walked back to the house there was moisture in the dark blue grass it brushed against our legs as we walked End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Ned Baeck Previously published in Time to Regroup (The Continuist, 2020), and Cage of Light (Guernica Editions, 2022). Ned Baeck studied Liberal Arts at Concordia University and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His poems have appeared in untethered, The Continuist, Sewer Lid, Ottawa Arts Review, Prism, poemimage, The Nashwaak Review, Devour and Montreal Serai. His first, full-length collection of poetry, Wait, was published by Guernica Editions in 2018, and his second, Cage of Light, also from Guernica, in 2022.