Steve Deutsch
Steve Deutsch has been widely published both on line and in print. Steve was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He is poetry editor for Centered Magazine. His Chapbook, Perhaps You Can, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length book, Persistence of Memory was published in 2020 by Kelsay, Steve’s third book of poetry, Going, Going, Gone, has just been published.
Forever
Aloft
a single-engine prop
pulses against a head wind,
vibrates briefly,
like a drill biting bone,
then silence
over the forest of
Pennsylvania.
Progress seems little
more than slow-stepping
above the scented pines
and hemlock.
The horizon
unchanging as glass
and I am lonely
like I have never been
before. Is this how
forever feels—
to coast the empty
sky in the silence
of the blue-green afternoon.
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