Keep in Touch

by Michele Rule

 
Don't
drift too far,
your little rowboat caught in the current
straying ever away from me.
Too distant
for me to reach out
and touch the rough boards.
I worry
about frightful storms,
holes wormed through the keel,
making it all the way to sea,
forever lost to me.
Keep in touch
I say as you wave and 
float 
away.
 

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Michele Rule is a disabled poet from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele is published in OYEDrum, Five Minute Lit, Pocket Lint, WordCityLit, the anthologies Spring Peepers and Poets for Ukraine and others. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. She lives with a sleepy dog, two cats and a fantastic partner and thinks about her flock of children every day.