[Poetry] Here by Julia Travers

between me and the present moment

I wear a thin, doubting armor

which the sea dissolves

and washes away

water is constant arrival

Julia Travers (she/they) is a writer, artist and teacher in Virginia, U.S.A. She writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Find her work with Fish Publishing, Bowery Poetry, Rattapallax, On Being/ American Public Media, Rough Cut Press, Ecological Citizen, The Poetry Society of Virginia (which awarded her two first place prizes) and others. More at juliatravers.journoportfolio.com.