Ahrend Torrey
Recognizing Eternity
I can’t remember anything good or bad about my life.
All that I know are these gulls floating above me,
and this bag of old bread, and Jonathan throwing his arms
like prayers to the sky. What more is there to know
other than this? What more really matters?
But this moment—this moment containing enough desire
for all of us, and enough liberty. “These gulls!” I say to myself,
“These gulls!” Oh how they glide—Oh how they dip
so close to me. Oh how they hover with their open mouths
so I look in and recognize this eternity.
Ahrend Torrey is a poet and painter. He is a creative writing graduate from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. When he is not writing or teaching English in New Orleans, he enjoys the simple things in life, like walking around Bayou St. John with his partner, Jonathan, and their two rat terriers, Dichter and Dova.
Recognizing Eternity
I can’t remember anything good or bad about my life.
All that I know are these gulls floating above me,
and this bag of old bread, and Jonathan throwing his arms
like prayers to the sky. What more is there to know
other than this? What more really matters?
But this moment—this moment containing enough desire
for all of us, and enough liberty. “These gulls!” I say to myself,
“These gulls!” Oh how they glide—Oh how they dip
so close to me. Oh how they hover with their open mouths
so I look in and recognize this eternity.
Ahrend Torrey is a poet and painter. He is a creative writing graduate from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. When he is not writing or teaching English in New Orleans, he enjoys the simple things in life, like walking around Bayou St. John with his partner, Jonathan, and their two rat terriers, Dichter and Dova.