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
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- Ольга Берггольц – Здравствуй
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peggy Alison:
- Владимир Британишский – Океан с континентом воюют
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Waly, Waly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- At the bottom by Vasil Slavov
- My Views of Man by Ronald G. Auguste
- Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
- Robert Burns: Sonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday, : On hearing a Thrush sing in his Morning Walk.
- Nailing by Mike Yuan
- Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan
- Robert Burns: The Birks Of Aberfeldy:
- The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
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