{"id":3005,"date":"2016-11-11T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:03:20","slug":"the-man-arriving-by-george-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-man-arriving-by-george-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Arriving by George Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"moore-uffizi\"<\/h1>\n

The Man Arriving<\/h2>\n

by George Moore<\/p>\n

All you can do is assume
\na great grandfather at the gunwale,<\/p>\n

scouting the skyline coming into view
\nafter more than a month at sea,<\/p>\n

some century and a half before.
\nSeventeen. A tenant farmer<\/p>\n

for whom the seas are always Irish
\nand holy. The first voyage<\/p>\n

his last, arriving complete;
\nno need to move beyond Illinois.<\/p>\n

Like weak tea, the image
\nneeds a stronger kick to pilot it<\/p>\n

into harbor. The gulls looking
\nfor a feast, the black docks rising like<\/p>\n

Neptune\u2019s teeth, and no one
\ngreeting you, only this memory,<\/p>\n

could you steer it into its berth,
\na chain of names<\/p>\n

we haul at feverishly.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

George Moore publications include The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Antigonish, Blast, and Orion. After teaching literature and writing with the University of Colorado for many years, he is presently living with his wife, a Canadian poet, on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Among other collections his newest was out in September from FutureCycle PressSeptember, Saint Agnes Outside the Walls,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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