Waves

Watching the water and waves

Feeling the pulse trying to beat

Time and memory fades

Long lost laurels and feats

Had I known then

What I know now

What would it be

Had I known then

What I know now

What would I be

Me

Seeing the white of a crest

All the way out at sea

Not really holding my breath

Nothing left to be

Fish start jumping like friends

Friends that I used to see

That we were younger then

Now older like rings on thick trees

Can smell them fly through the air

Even whales come to see

Calmness of the event

Cause we just let it be.

My name is Jeffrey Fisher. I hold four higher education degrees and have been working at Touro College for over 18 years. I am currently going for an M.Phil./Ph.D. at LIU Post. I have studied at Ithaca College, LIU Post, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, Touro College and Teachers College, Columbia University. I am a native New Yorker. My poetry has appeared in Azahares Literary Magazine, The Anonymous Quarterly, The Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Variant Literature Journal.