Ed Ruzicka

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE & DUSK

During my many years I have learned
how to sip gin and tonic
from a tumbler at sunset
while amid grasses and leaves
katydids transform themselves
into a Greek chorus

and the sun slides into forests
where squirrels and wrens
bury that pulsing organ,
that heart beneath twigs
and the dry leaves
of silence.

Slowly the moon rises,
to drag the tides behind her
as she wanders, disconsolate,
in a desperate search
for any sign of her lost love.

Ed Ruzicka has published four full-length books of poetry, most recently “In the Wind”, by Sligo Creek Publishing. Ed’s poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, the Chicago Literary Review, Rattle, Canary and many others. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Ed is also president of the Poetry Society of Louisiana. Ed lives quietly under the green of live oak trees in Baton Rouge with his wife, Renee.