Geoff Bouvier is the author of Living Room, winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His work has appeared in several literary journals and reviews. In 1997 he received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Appointed the 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer at the University of California–Berkeley, Bouvier lives in San Diego.

Mission

by Geoff Bouvier

The oceans are big water and their slightest movements

are big.
Over heaving swells and deeps to be delivered to an island I
remembered climbing trees.

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