{"id":7597,"date":"2023-02-20T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&p=7597"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:27:35","slug":"sunset-3","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/sunset-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Jim Harrison <\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

On this excursion my hands were folded,<\/p>\n

I tried not to see anything, didn\u2019t pick up the pole,<\/p>\n

let him do all the work, he took every turn<\/p>\n

for the both of us\u2014promising I would be amazed<\/p>\n

at any moment, soon enough, and I fucking doubt it<\/em><\/p>\n

I replied, wanting something more from my time,<\/p>\n

as though each of my moments were precious<\/p>\n

and meant to be filled with golden sap, we,<\/p>\n

through mangrove canals where pregnant<\/p>\n

wolf spiders ran their fingers through my hair,<\/p>\n

and blackened crabs climbed from root to root,<\/p>\n

the water moved past our boat like soft hands<\/p>\n

swimming in still water, paddled toward the sunset<\/p>\n

when two boar, nose-to-tail, took to the water to cross<\/p>\n

from shore to shore oblivious of us one way or another<\/p>\n

and now is a good time to define what our time is worth.<\/p>\n

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This poem originally appeared in our 46.2 issue, and was a runner-up for The Florida Review<\/em>‘s 2022 Humboldt Poetry Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prize judge David Keplinger’s citation: “On a miserable excursion through mangrove canals, rife with crabs and spiders, what seems a resistant young person sits with hands folded as an older figure tries to amaze and awaken them; and they do; they do awaken to the worth of this moment with its boars crossing the shore \u201coblivious of us\u201d in that instant of marvelous connection with the natural world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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