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
- Юрий Верховский – Как раненый олень кидается в поток
- Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth
- Father And Son by Mac McGovern
- Paradise Lost: Book 11 poem – John Milton poems
- Низами Гянджеви – В привычке сердца воровать ты
- America by Tony Hoagland
- All These I Loved by Rabindranath Tagore
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A winning lot
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Sleep by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill : Another Version
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
