Glimpses
Glimpses Barefoot she walks the strand conscious her man is somewhere in the swelling darkness where Proteus rises Her feet sink in sand …
D.S. Martin is the author of five poetry collections, including Ampersand (2018), and his newly-released book Angelicus (2021) — both from Cascade Books. He is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College. He is also the Series Editor for the Poiema Poetry Series, where he has edited more than thirty poetry collections, and three anthologies. He and his wife live in Brampton, Ontario; they have two adult sons
This poem grew out of my meditation on a line in Augustine’s Confessions: ‘I did not know that evil has no existence except as…