Elissa Gordon's poetry mines a childhood spent between New York City and New England and a passion for travel. She has appeared in print in Kind of a Hurricane Press, Bohemia Art and Literary Magazine, Windmills (Australia), and upcoming in 2015 in Lips. She has appeared online in Short, Fast & Deadly.
Fathomless
Elissa Gordon
On this overcast day,
the river is black,
its surface undisturbed,
opaque;
it gives none of its secrets away.
Drop a stone,
there is no sound
after the initial plunk.
Those dark, smooth waters,
unreadable,
like I wanted to be,
instead of
the girl who smiled easily.
An insect alights,
blue skies quiver
only for a moment
and stillness returns.