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Self/No Self
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2

Poems/Not Poems

The Berkeley Marina at Dusk

By Dan Clurman

 
 

 

Not long ago I sat here with my mother.

Just looking at the waters was

enough, she said.

 

Now, I feel the breath of life

rise and fall with the ripples of the bay,

see the Golden Gate slip into darkness

as the gulls cry.

 

Men ready their boats for rest.

Clouds drift, thin wisps tufted with pale yellow.

Moon slivers out.

Night settles our lives.

 

I breathe in my

mother’s words, breathe

in the breath she gave me,

give it back now to the bay.

 

∞

 

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Text © 1995–2020 by Dan Clurman

Author

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com. 

Author

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com. 

 
 
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