James Galvin is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Everything We Always Knew Was True and As Is, as well as the acclaimed prose meditation The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. Galvin lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher, and in Iowa City, where he is a faculty member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Photograph by Kirk S. Murray.

Treasure Island

by James Galvin

I felt like I was sending the wrong signal
From the lighthouse.
Amnesiac waves swashbuckled in
From where pirates keelhauled the ne’er-do-well.
As usual, I was the last to know.

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