Bob Lucky

7 on the Beaufort Scale of My Life

In the distance, the grey of water and sky bleed into each other. I imagine another world beyond the horizon and another man imagining my world.

late afternoon
the smell of ocean
in the air
the cries of a gull
unanswered

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About the Author

Bob Lucky is the author most recently of My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019) and the chapbook Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), which was a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. Lucky lives in Portugal, where he is working his way through all the regional cheeses and wines.