Yearning, by Steve Deutsch

Yearning, by Karen Deutsch (USA). Contemporary. Click image for artist website.

Yearning
 
There is no known measure
for the distance between.
 
No earnest negotiation
nor calculated navigation
will see you there--
No puerile charm
no palsied spell
will release you. 
 
And how could you ever guess
that the god you created, 
for just this occasion would retire,
leaving behind an old book
of ghost-written homilies,
preserved on aged onionskin
badly bound 
in the limp leather of cold comfort.

Steve Deutsch

Steve Deutsch, a semi-retired practitioner of the fluid mechanics of mechanical hearts and heart valves, lives with his wife Karen--a visual artist, in State College, PA.  Steve writes poetry, short fiction and the blog: [email protected].  His most recent publications have been in Eclectica Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, The Drabble, New Verse News, Silver Birch Press, Misfit Magazine and One-sentence poems. As an adult, Steve had the good fortune to sit in on two poetry classes taught by first class poets and teachers.  He has been writing poetry ever since.