By Eric D. Goodman
Standing at the rim of the canyon,
peering into the vast,
crimson-brown rainbow
of rock stretched out before us,
we shrank to the size of two peas.
The sun burned,
wind cooled,
dry throat begged
for water.
Those sensations paled
before the infinite abyss.
Insignificance overwhelmed,
until your hand took mine
and shifted sentiment,
your contented sigh
enough to fill
a Grand Canyon.
Eric D. Goodman is author of seven books, including Faraway Tables (Yorkshire Publishing, 2024), a collection of travel-centric poetry that hit bestseller status online earlier this year. His other books include Wrecks and Ruins (Loyola University’s Apprentice House Press, 2022), The Color of Jadeite (Apprentice House, 2020), Setting the Family Free (Apprentice House, 2019), Womb: a novel in utero (Merge Publishing, 2017), Tracks: A Novel in Stories (Atticus Books, 2011), and Flightless Goose (Writer's Lair, 2008). Hundreds of his travel stories, short stories, poems, and articles have been published in magazines, journals, and periodicals. www.EricDGoodman.com
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