Not an Ocean

While not an ocean, Lake Michigan can often evoke many of the same feelings found within the lines of this work by Kelly. This photograph is from the Lake Series, March 28th, 2024.

“late spring wind sounds an ocean
through new leaves. later the same
wind sounds a tide. later still the dry
sound of applause: leaves chapped
falling, an ending. this is a process.
the ocean leaping out of ocean

should be enough
the wind
pushing the water out of itself;
the water catching the light
…”

From Donika Kelly’s poem “When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside”.

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