fridays-poems

[Don Schaeffer]

Thank you, Don, for your submission to Friday’s Poems. We will be publishing "Existential" in the Nov. 23, 2018 Issue. http://www.davidpfraser.ca/David Fraser, editor



Existential

I fear
and the wind
comes fresh at my face
carrying the salt
from the beaches of Africa.
This is the true
earth, growling at me
the probability of death.
I am not numb
when I fear
as I am when I celebrate.