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Johan Huybrechts

 

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.