Steve Deutsch

Steve Deutsch has been widely published both on line and in print. Steve was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He is poetry editor for Centered Magazine. His Chapbook, Perhaps You Can, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length book, Persistence of Memory was published in 2020 by Kelsay, Steve’s third book of poetry, Going, Going, Gone, has just been published.

Forever

Aloft

a single-engine prop

pulses against a head wind,

vibrates briefly,

like a drill biting bone,

then silence

over the forest of

Pennsylvania.

Progress seems little

more than slow-stepping

above the scented pines

and hemlock.

The horizon

unchanging as glass

and I am lonely

like I have never been

before. Is this how

forever feels—

to coast the empty

sky in the silence

of the blue-green afternoon.