The Surprise

                 St. Augustine


Light shafts down on 
the assembled congregation of sails 

billows my shirt      sends me to where thin countries 
stretch like needles    to a low and distant shore 

from which    suddenly     canoes appear

Credit

Author

Lola Haskins

Lola Haskins is the author of multiple volumes of poetry, most recently Asylum (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). She currently serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association.

Date Published

03/28/2012