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
- Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh:
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe by William Wordsworth
- Signet of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- [ I think I’m there? ] poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- The Answer by Sara Teasdale
- The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Wisdom in Love by Lutfi Abdallah a.k.a Laso
- Earthly Wounds by Satish Verma
- Voltaire At Ferney by W H Auden
- Михаил Кузмин – Зимнее солнце
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