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 former family therapist, joke writer, and fruit huckster. He started writing poems in high school and has never stopped writing and publishing. His books include Magical Yogis, Awkward Grace, The Asthmatic Kid and Other Stories, Junkyard Souls, and Rain on Cabrillo. Mark and his wife ride the bike lanes in Long Beach, California, when he's not writing. See more of his work at - Crow On The Wire.
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