Almost As If I’ve Been Given an Horizon

By Graham Foust

The giant world

is no damned genius

with its basket of latitude,

its schedule for wanting

to be touched.

Now, slow asleep

I’m song

to break in on,

a strength less lost

than gone.

I borrow minute, hour,

day, day.

The waves as cruel replacements pass

for crutches.

Copyright Credit: Graham Foust, “Almost As If I’ve Been Given an Horizon” from As in Every Deafness. Copyright © 2003 by Graham Foust. Reprinted by permission of Flood Editions.

Source: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003)