David A. Goodrum

The Approach of Nothing

 
in our weighted pockets
calcified phrases

to be strewn across the sand
the empty shells of ideas         

loves and other necessary fictions              
offered to the undertow              

to be filled                   
by small hermits              

and gently carried                    
into the metronome of waves

to seek a distant shore    
where passersby      who graze the night    

pulled by songs of rushing water
listen               unafraid

David A. Goodrum is a writer/photographer living in Corvallis, Oregon. His poems have been published in Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon, Willawaw Journal, Spillway, Star 82 Review, The Louisville Review, among others. His photos have graced the covers of Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, and Red Rock Review. See additional work, both poems and photos, at www.davidgoodrum.com.