Joel

by Brittany Cagle

Brackish water washed over

the tips of his feet as

the current drew

him violently in,

until he swirled

with the grasses

beneath the black water,

The landscape blurred into a string

of air bubbles and distant

strangers only saw that

quick blur of silver ripples.

I was dreaming somewhere in the distance,

with my friend sinking

underneath

the moonlit surface.

Brittany Cagle is currently a first-year MFA student at University of South Florida focusing in poetry. She earned her BA in English at Florida Gulf Coast University with minors in both journalism and creative writing.

She is currently teaching Composition I at USF.