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
- Владимир Маяковский – Буржуазия и пролетариат стали врагами друг против друга… (Главполитпросвет №19)
- Dirce by Walter Savage Landor
- Swimming Pool by Piera Chen
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
- I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson by Wilfred Owen
- Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
- Алишер Навои – О, мне бы крылья
- Words – “My only friends forever” by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- the_prison_of_the_past.html
- Sir Philip Sidney; Astrophel and Stella: XXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Высоцкий – Моя клятва (Первый стих)
- At Delphi poem – Alfred Austin
- Constantia039s Song
- What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said by Vachel Lindsay
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 29. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
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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).
