This month’s Versed in Florida poet is Naples born and raised Eddie Krez-MIN-skee. He’s a senior at Florida Gulf Coast University and plans to get an M.F.A. in creative writing. His work has previously appeared in Foliate Oak and The Mangrove Review. In his spare time he reads, writes, and plays bass in two bands. His poems have his father in common, as he tells WGCU’s Amy Tardif.
If there's such a thing as a generation gap
then I think I see it
in the furrows on my father’s brow,
where 40 years hard work
is buried like plough lines
expecting seeding.
His hands have never felt
wasted time and I am cold
to the touch of his work.
If there's any time between us
then I think I see it in my poetry
that smells of too many college courses
and too many books by French philosophers
with names I can't even pronounce.
My words reek of the mornings that I slept
while he was pouring coffee
silently in the dark.