{"id":10340,"date":"2024-03-12T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2024-03-12T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:58:16","slug":"west-by-philip-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/west-by-philip-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"West by Philip Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"West<\/p>\n

West<\/h2>\n

by Philip Newton<\/p>\n

Here at the edge of things
\nthe place where everything
\nstops
\nyou can hold on to it
\nput one foot in the ocean
\nand keep one leg
\non the curve of coast
\nYou won\u2019t be cornered
\nin some dismal canyon
\nsmelling of tar and leather
\nYou know there\u2019s a place
\nto jump off<\/p>\n

The sun disappears
\nsafely extinguished
\nevery night behind the waves
\nIts last fires reveal where
\ntoothed creatures and
\nlost iron lie
\nIts ghost crosses the water
\nto east west shores
\nOnce I went that way
\nand watched it rise
\nagain from the deep<\/p>\n

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Philip Newton is a writer, musician and stonemason living in Oregon. In addition to publishing one novel, TERRANE (Unsolicited Press, 2018), shorter works have appeared or are upcoming in Ginosko Literary, Letters Journal (Yale), The Hamilton Stone Review, Roanoke Review, Gargoyle, and other periodicals. He is a graduate of the Sonoma State University writing program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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