I suck baffling wind, tap on
light app, hike
man made steps cut in

bedrock, then the high
tangle, exult over mud’s
tug, twig-crackling

footfalls, atop
the cliff, haul off
boots, drop

glowing phone to surf’s
ecstatic swoosh, climb
God-given erratic, let

my moony sigh whet, let
that osprey adjust
its optics on me, whistle.

Joe Bishop’s work has appeared in journals such as The New Quarterly, Plenitude Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Riddle Fence and is featured on the League of Canadian Poets’ website. He is a recipient of a Newfoundland & Labrador Arts & Letters award for poetry. His first collection of poems, Dissociative Songs, was published in 2021 by Frog Hollow Press.