Mary Ann Samyn

Poem With A DolPhin In It

Wouldn’t you know it: the timing is off;
the lighting not quite right; I call home.

It’s a trick to be convinced things matter.
I mean, a gift. Again I dream my father’s face.

A bird drinks from the pool. A song floats over.
“Nobody loves me like you do” is how it goes.

One channel meets another, and anyone can see—
logically—all this goes to the ocean.

Mary Ann Samyn is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Prize, and My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize. She is a professor of English in the MFA Program at West Virginia University.