On The Winter Beach

On The Winter Beach by Suchoon Mo

I walk on the winter beach
from here to there
and beyond where the beach ends
past indifferent sea gulls
over beached kelps
over bleached sea shells
to the sound of crushing waves
to the call of ebbing memories
I walk on the winter beach
I shall go
I must go
alone
beyond where the beach ends

Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems and essays appeared in such publications as East and West, Religious Humanism, Riverside Poetry, Dissident Editions, The Surface, Snakeskin, Bitter Oleander, Poetic Voices, Thunder Sandwich, Spillway Review, Subtle Tea, Quill and Ink, Full Moon, Stylus Poetry Journal, Sage of Consciousness, Underground Window, Sentinel Poetry. He has also authored a number of research papers about perception of time. He composes orchestral music even though he has no formal music education.