Nick Conrad
Agate Beach, Califonia
Nick Conrad
Agate Beach, California
A connoisseur of driftwood, collector
of shore pebbles, curator of sea
worn shells; I am steeped in water’s ways,
in how things swept away can be cast up
at tide’s peak, or revealed at ebb,
how the dead return on a current
of grief and regret, moon tugging on blood
till ears ring with ocean roar, till feet feel
riptide’s undertow, the churning dark green
tumult tossing and spinning me about
only to deposit me, kelp draped,
on your far shore, changed yet not.
Nick Conrad’s poems continue to appear in national and international journals, most recently in Acumen (UK), The American Poetry Journal, Aquifer, Orbis (UK), Poetry South, Stand (UK), Valparaiso Poetry Review, and WA (Western Australia) Poets Inc’s Ross Spencer 2023 Anthology and have been accepted for future issues of Blueline, Cloudbank, and Stand (UK). His first book, Lake Erie Blues (Urban Farmhouse Press) appeared in August 2020. His podcast interview with All Write in Sin City aired 8/29/2021.
Featured in:
Red Rock Review
Issue 53