Dawn Garisch Poems

Dawn Garisch is a poet and author who has published five novels and a memoir. She often uses images of the body, dreams, and the unconscious in her work. The poet has also had a short film produced and written television scripts.

To My Father, Who Died

by Dawn Garisch

Dawn Garisch’s poem ‘To My Father, Who Died’ is about the relationship of the poet’s father with the sea. It depicts the cycle of life and death through the metaphor of the sea.

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