LIMBO
by Tim Gardiner
I sit in the promenade shelter
rain drumming on the roof.
Raging seahorses skirt
the blackened horizon.
I’m waiting for cormorants
to return in fading light.
I’m waiting for her shadow
to appear in the distance.
I’m waiting for limbo days
to end sometime soon.
My turn must come
once more before I die.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tim Gardiner is an ecologist and poet. His haiku have been published in literary magazines including Blithe Spirit, Frogpond, and Presence while longer poems have appeared in Poetry Quarterly and Salopeot. His first collection of poetry Wilderness will be published by Brambleby Books. He has published many scientific papers on natural history and several books, including one about glow-worms.
IMAGE: “Cormorants” by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1891).
Silver Birch Press 
Hauntingly beautiful. This one is going to stay with me.
great poem