Mantis 20 (Spring 2022)
New Poetry
Roger Singer
Our Names
cloud shadows
silently pass
over your eyes,
brushing out
the winds of
unanswered
prayers
as reflections
of us
drift down
from above
onto paths
where rain
cannot quench
the fire of
our words
from the years
of tides
lifting to
the surface
our names
Dr. ROGER SINGER is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,300 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books, and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee.