An Ocean of Blue
By: Anthony Oscar
I keep sending you messages
in corked bottles, wondering
how many thoughts drift & sink
throughout our global waters
Heaven is a dance between light & dark
& I have wanted to take lessons with you,
feel your hands heavy holding
my shoulders (trembling) while I let go
sunbeams fracture in the sea
where quietness swims between
my fingers & nothing nibbles my toes
the heat has trouble descending with me
the light likes to float
& I am learning to leave it alone
Originally from the Canadian Maritimes, Anthony Oscar is a New Orleans based poet, songwriter and visual artist. He is a longstand-ing member of the New Orleans Community Printshop and Darkroom where he collaborates with likeminded artists to offer accessible art-making resources to the Greater New Orleans community with a special focus on youth and underrepresented emerging artists. He has been published in Left Catholic, The Iron Lattice, Anti-Gravity, NOLA Defender and he has released three self-produced albums, as well as Weird Sleep, his first book of poems and drawings.