and the clouds
keep coming
and the brook
is overflowing
and raindrops
keep falling
on my head
but it’s no longer
the same tune
and I feel like
weeping myself
and how
do you tell this
sea to relax?
Atlantis
Johan Huybrechts
| poetry
Johan Huybrechts works as a medical doctor, and lives near Ghent, Belgium. His poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ambit, AGNI, Magma, Lighthouse, and The Moth, and he was a runner-up in the 2017 Ambit Poetry Competition, judged by George Szirtes.