Epitaph for Sailor X

by Michael Mauro DeBonis

Copyright ©2024 All rights reserved by the author

"Give an old ghost

what you love most

in the form of a prayer.

I was a sailor in the open air.

I was a dream in a burning star.

I am one without a care,

sleeping with kelp and songs ajar."

-April 17, 2024

About the Author: Michael Mauro DeBonis is a poet and a historian from Long Island, New York.  A graduate of Suffolk County Community College (A.A. in Liberal Studies) and SUNY at Stony Brook (B.A. in English Literature), Michael's work first appeared in The Brookhaven Times Newspapers.  Michael's latest poetry and prose may be found in The Lyric Magazine, The New York Almanack, and The New York History Review.  Mr. DeBonis is dedicated to studying and learning the history of the great State of New York.