Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s originally from Sonoma, California, and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Stillwater Cove
It seemed a furtive magic—
sun ricocheting off cresting waves near
Stillwater Cove, the soft rock cliffs
of sandstone and clay, the wind-tiltedcypress trees leaning towardthe blue Pacific—and it was only you
