TAK Erzinger

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TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. Her poetry has been published by The Curlew, The Cirrus Poetry Review, The Beautiful Space Journal, The Mojave He[art] Review, The Avocet and The Rising Phoenix Review and many more. Last year TAK began a walking pilgrimage on the St. Jacob’s Way through Switzerland. Her most recent interviews can be found at www.swisspats.com and http: //worldradio.ch/article/take-erzinger-poetry-and-pilgrimage-on-st-jacobs-way/ and http: //swisspats.com/swisspats-met-a-poet-dont-ya-know-it She lives in a Swiss valley with her husband and two cats. For more information go to: https: //takerzinger.wixsite.com/poet)

The Best Poem Of TAK Erzinger

Flooded

We swallowed up the summers whole
like the pelicans, with their fish,
queuing on the pier.

Waves crashed against spindly legs
of oak and my father's reel raced
down into Black Beard's bed

and the reel whistled with a certain
admiration, flirting with the tide.
The salt air licked at our faces

curing and preserving those moments
washed up through the cracks in
our weathered memories.

We are now flooded,

divided by the Atlantic
and landlocked by circumstance.
We've forgotten how to swim.

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