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Marjorie Buettner

The Distant Shore

My body like an ancient mariner is locked in gaze with that distant shore. I feel the movement steadily propelling me forward or backward I cannot tell. And the life I cannot lead anymore seeps from me as if from a dying animal, eyes clouding over into obscurity.

morning fog
the quiet ringing
within silence

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About the Author

Marjorie Buettner has two books of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press: Seeing it Now (haiku and tanka) and Some Measure of Existence (haibun), the latter of which won the Haiku Society of America book award. She lives in Chisago City, Minnesota.