Never Found
Never found. The moon near midnight.
Fog ridden sails head toward a ramshackle pier.
Water turns still. Never found. White.
Quiet. The wet of approaching evening. Never found
beatific peaceful repose.
An orange rests in a fruit basket. Yellow daisies
drop petals. A glass of water waits.
In the morning. Never found
the same way twice.
About Me
- Adela Josefina Najarro
- Adela Najarro holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College as part of the Puente Project, a program designed to support Latinidad in all its aspects, while preparing community college students to transfer to four year colleges and universities. Her extended family’s emigration from Nicaragua to San Francisco began in the 1940’s and concluded in the eighties when the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. Her poetry appears in the University of Arizona Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and she has published poems in numerous journals, including Feminist Studies, Puerto del Sol, Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose, Notre Dame Review, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Artful Dodge, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is a board member for Poetry Santa Cruz.