At night
on the beach
the black teeth
appear like meteorites
against the white sand
the untrained eye
might consider
a shell shard
my flashlight scanning
the beach
back and forth
like a mine detector
and I find a diamond
ring, perhaps a wedding
promising love
immortal as the sea
where infinity
maroons itself,
how the angle of stars
measure the passage
of time, me too old
for rings, my wife dead
but sending me gifts
the teeth of those
who never sleep.
Shark Teeth
Don Narkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Poetry appears in The Trillium, Agape, Blue Collar Review, Dappled Things. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry, After the Lynching. In 2024, The Potomac Playmakers produced From Birth. In 2025, the author won the Ziolkowski Poetry Prize.