by Raymond Gibson
in the golden light of a late
afternoon you regard
mastery a stalemate between
learning and forgetting
that lost knowledge can’t be
recognized or found
and everything fades as
breath would upon a mirror
Raymond Gibson earned his MFA in creative writing from Florida Atlantic University. He published two chapbooks with Glass Lyre Press and a microchapbook with Ghost City Press. His recent work appeared in Terse, Moist, Tiny Wren Lit, and Antipoetry. He lives in his hometown of Hollywood, FL.