outside of the seven

by Daniel Lockeridge

A lake lends its balanced levitation

to another duck that sang like Saturn,

and the driving morning — more midnight —

is suddenly having to make room for planetary poesy.

I let it grow like a ring in the sun,

till it almost sounds, like the trillion wings

that split water only because you remember the air

and tell me to stop imagining your planet-sunned hum.

The lake rises as the earth cares for its revolution,

and in the extra rush I indulge your singing stares;

I hold the ducks like deservedness, while they soar.

I may not find another muse among the seven

remaining decades of fluttering, precise destruction

left by the ballpoint-sound whose slowness soaks the mind.

Daniel Lockeridge is a twenty-nine-year-old Australian who has self-published two collections of poetry as well as a collection of meditative reminders. His Instagram page – @danlovepoetry – has allowed him to expand on his love for writing free verse, especially romantic poetry interlaced with nature themes. His poetry has been published in Reverie Magazine, The Winged Moon Magazine and Free Verse Revolution. Currently, he is focusing on completing novels as well as additional poetry and spiritual books.