John Harper is a graduate of the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa and has published his poetry in literary journals like Diagram, Mid-American Poetry Review, Cutbank, Spinning Jenny, and Zoland Poetry. He was a book finalist with Four Way Books and has a chapbook called Peek-a-Boo Terrain.
Caption for My Life
By John Harper
do i sing well enough into your folds of waves? collapsing and recreating, at once? i’m so mesmerized by your nonchalance that i wonder if i am any other than divine depths of no end; and i do not want to stop there; who’d want a cusp of wisdom and compassion?
but this is it–it’s a hard time in letting go of this room of options seeming; because they do seem so, but when i look they can’t be found as what i thought they were;
in fact, by not i’m not even the same, as i’m reassembled over and over, like waves are to the ocean–
