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Temple of Poseidon

the weight taken
from their shoulders
marble pillars
gaze out to sea
the future in the setting sun
a bloodsail in the sand

For the past 45 years Robert Witmer has lived in Tokyo, Japan, where he served as a Professor of English at Sophia University until his retirement in 2022. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals, including Lily Poetry Review, The Mean Street Rag, Bacopa Literary Review, New Verse News, Parody, Shot Glass Journal. His first book of poems, Finding a Way, was published in 2016. A second book, Serendipity, a collection of prose poetry pieces and haiku sequences, was published in March 2023.

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