Tanka

The sea releases
whatever it can: a boat
sways swell after swell
unaware of depth or shore.
I am still waiting for you.

Jared Beloff is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the MCU poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and the forthcoming Poets of Queens Anthology, Vol. 2 (2024). His work can be found at AGNI, Baltimore Review, EcoTheo Review, River Mouth Review and elsewhere. He is a Poetry Editor at The Weight Journal and Managing Editor of Porcupine Literary. You can find him on his website www.jaredbeloff.com. He is a teacher who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters.