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
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- Brothers poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Fancy Feäir At Maïden Newton by William Barnes
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Гроза
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Song Of Jasoda
- The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Юрий Энтин – Слово про слово
- Гавриил Державин – Жуковскому и Родзянке, приславшим с большими похвалами автору перевод его оды «Бог» на французском языке
- That Shadow, my Likeness. by Walt Whitman
- Dust in the Eyes by Robert Frost
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ночи
- A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
