Not even a casual glance
from the manta ray slowly gliding by.
Solitary, majestic, fins billowing
softly like sheer curtains
stirring in a large airy suite at the Savoy.
Insouciant cabinet minister,
party whip, moving without haste.
Trim in his morning waistcoat, he undulates
farther into the milky blue,
then all at once vanishes,
leaving me with stolid groupers cued up
like cabbies along the Strand.
After a long career in college/university teaching and scholarship, Ron retired in 2014, devoting his energies to his long-deferred passion for writing poetry. To date, he has published widely around the country. He has also been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his poem, "Falling," (Twyckenham Notes, Autumn 2018), which appears in volume XLVI of the Pushcart anthology. His poems may be found in Saltillo, Alabama Literary Review, Blue Earth Review, JuxtaProse, MockingHeart Review, Peregrine, Rust & Moth, Stirring, South Florida Poetry Journal, Split Rock Review, Streetlight Magazine, Temenos, The American Journal of Poetry, The Chattahoochee Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Sublunary Review, The Worchester Review, Twyckenham Notes, and The Midwest Quarterly, forthcoming summer, 2025. He is currently looking for a publisher for his debut collections of poetry.