Green cliffs watch over
a pale blue
ocean
just as dusk
recolors the sky
in deep gray and
bled yellow
Here below
in soft breezes
lies a potter’s field
unknown to
the angels
A bell
echoes through
crooked grave markers
dead flowers
and black
weeds
Each moment here
is a single
eternity
under closed eyes
of Heaven
from where
a fog rolls in
over these sleepers
each in their
infinite shadow
Each now part of
the earth
in its own cold
grave of stars
Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in The Potomac Review, Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022. He is the author of, God Said Fire, and the forthcoming, Snowfire and Home.
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