David Lee Garrison
Light in the River
Like the light of late afternoon
in the river, regret dissolves
in the remembrance
of other days like this one,
so muggy the air clings
thick as milk to everything.
My dog paddles in the wind
and trees drip
with gratitude; my skin
feels clammy and alive.
My life has been
like this: not perfect,
as on a fall day,
but sloppy and delicious.
Bio
David Lee Garrison is a retired professor of Spanish and Portuguese, a translator as well as a poet. His poems have appeared in Connecticut Review, Nimrod, Poem, and Rattle; they have also been read on The Writer's Almanac by Garrison Keillor and featured by Ted Kooser on American Life in Poetry. His new book is Playing Bach in the D. C. Metro (Browser Books).