Mark Wagenaar // Poetry

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Returning Home

Sonnet

Brush
cheek
against
cheek,

smooth
hair
through
fingers,

caress
drawn
face,
then

lips,
lips.

Mark Wagenaar is the only player, to his knowledge, to begin and end a professional soccer career under suspension. He has poetry accepted or published in Descant, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Portland Review, Poetry Midwest, Tar River Poetry, Briar Cliff Review, & Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.

Date of Publication: 02 May 2007