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
- Robin Hood And The Potter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin
- Lines On The Mermaid Tavern poem – John Keats poems
- Resolute by Stephenie Tucker
- The Mocking Fairy by Walter de la Mare
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Heart Chirps by Ramesh Anand
- Secret Music by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-Day poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton by T. S. Eliot
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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).
