The Other Side of Panic
by Martina Reisz Newberry
It begins
with the desert’s hot sky,
mendacious
as always,
alchemizing grief and loathing
into love stories.
Here is the other side of panic:
a dug-in-deep
lethargy
that makes your
marrow itch.
Anyway,
the desert underwrites
your soul’s story.
You become
untethered from yourself
which may
or
may not
be a good thing.
Such intricacy!
People in the sand
looking for closure
as if there was such an animal.
“We’ll do this
so we can have
closure,”
they say when
what they mean is
they want every gory detail.
They want to smell and taste
the who/what/where/when/why
in each sanctification
of violence.
I dream a lot
in this desert.
My dreams
turn to fish line
which I use
to sew what is real
to what is not.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Natural History by Sylvia Plath
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Robert Burns: Down The Burn, Davie:
- Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare
- Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- A man who set his journey back to time by Preeth Nambiar
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Миг придёт, и смерть исторгнет жадно
- Pace of Life by Pierre Reverdy
- mother.html
- STONEWASHED by Satish Verma
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
