Artist Statement:
Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He has a wife, Vickie and a daughter, Sage. He is a three-time Pushcart nominee whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications including Poetry Salzburg Review, Bluestem, Sheepshead Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Two Thirds North, The Red Cedar Review and The William and Mary Review. He has poems forthcoming in Broad River Review, Emrys Journal, December Magazine and The Louisiana Review..
Tomorrow, at noon
the sky-fire will coalesce above us,
wind-screams stifled in all directions,
gasping like a cetacean in sand.
Let me ride your fluke of light back into the sea.
We’ll explore who you are, all that you’ve given.
It’s vital that we search the blackest ocean together.
Someday, we’ll find a record of the sun’s birth
where no one else thought to look.
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