Henk Rossouw is the author of Xamissa, winner of the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize. He received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Houston. From South Africa, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Tidal Motif

by Henk Rossouw
Dunlins in the thousands fluctuate
               above the eelgrass. I recall my childhood
soundtrack—you’re playing “Recuerdos de la Alhambra,”
People on couch
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