Dolphins in Sligo Bay
Colin Criss
Poetry
15 November 2023
are like stones like tearing
paper are keen to the surface
of feeling are like watering can
handles are your hands are
like lights, grey, from a train
are in argument frantic are many
like the grass like the spotted orchid
are the deaths we will live
are songs are songs collected
from the hills are homesickness
for no home are old as clouds
are like wings their own wings
are two worlds they are touching
with me.
Colin Criss has an MFA in poetry from Washington University and a degree in sociology from Harvard. His poems have appeared, or will soon, in Ploughshares, Grist, New Limestone Review, the Harvard Advocate, and in many other places. He teaches in the Honors College at Washington State University.