I know why
Dylan Thomas drank
the 18 whiskeys
and had already
said
all he wanted
to say—
it was like
a ship
being christened
and allowed
to eventually
find
the sea.
Chad Norman lives and writes in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. His poems have appeared over the years in journals off and online around the world. His latest collection is Selected & New Poems, Mosaic Press, 2016.