and the clouds
keep coming
and the brook
is overflowing
and raindrops
keep falling
on my head
but it’s no longer
the same tune
and I feel like
weeping myself
and how
do you tell this
sea to relax?
and the clouds
keep coming
and the brook
is overflowing
and raindrops
keep falling
on my head
but it’s no longer
the same tune
and I feel like
weeping myself
and how
do you tell this
sea to relax?
Johan Huybrechts works as a medical doctor, and lives near Ghent, Belgium. His poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ambit, AGNI, Magma, Lighthouse, and The Moth, and he was a runner-up in the 2017 Ambit Poetry Competition, judged by George Szirtes.