Poems Niederngasse
Rhonda Maltbie
Jamaican Rum

I am an empty ham --
mock between two palm
trees. I sleep as trade winds

drive the surf and break
in the distance.
I breathe salt

air as if it were a Mai
Tai, when evening comes,
I am the beach

where a jelly fish floats
in a tidal pool, awaits the tide.
I am the sun dropping from a cobalt sky

into the water: I am a  slow,
slow boat sailing by.

round III, poem 22, 9 December 2005
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Rhonda Maltbie lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in various online and paper publications. Currently, a haibun appears in the Autumn issue of Simply Haiku.  email: Rhonda Maltbie