Poem In My Shirt Pocket
written by: Mark Tulin
@Crow_writer
Thank you, Sara
for the poem
that I keep
in my shirt pocket.
It gives me comfort
to know that
you are only as far
as your words are close.
Your presence
is in the ink of your pen;
your heartbeat
in the rhythm of your verse.
Each line
spills softly over the page
like the smoothness of your face,
the cursive of your body.
Each stanza
stands wistfully alone
in the metaphor of your memory.
Mark Tulin is a retired therapist from California. Mark's books include Magical Yogis, Awkward Grace, The Asthmatic Kid and Other Stories, Junkyard Souls, Rain on Cabrillo, and Uncommon Love Poems. He's featured in Cafe Lit Magazine, Still Point Journal, The Opiate, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Amethyst Review, Vita Brevis Press, White Enso, WryTimes, and Red Wolf Editions. He is a Pushcart nominee and a Best of Drabble.
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