Valerie Roach
Beyond the Bay
Loneliness is like the sea
on a grey day
stretching out forever before me
waves cresting black
sameness dulls my thoughts
until sea meets sky
at some holy vanishing point
and I see nothing at all
but everything
at once
Bio
Valerie Roach lives and writes in strawberry country on the California Central Coast with her husband, a cattle dog, a tabby cat, three goats and five chickens. Her work has been published in Barney Street, Eunoia Review and The Marbled Sigh.