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Walter Heineman

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concerned that i am not concerned she asks why the unclothed dark wine beach dance and

holding her eyes like holding the shaved head of a madwoman

                                       i ask her what she sees…

                                                                   blackness and breaking waves

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slipping off her body civilization leaves

                                                                a white dress and sandals behind.

 

 

                                                                                           concerned that i am not

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Joseph Radke works as a freelance writer and editor in Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley. He earned his doctorate in English from UW-Milwaukee. His poems have appeared in several journals, including The Journal, Copper Nickel, Boulevard, Poetry East, and Natural Bridge.

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