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 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
- A Sketch by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мороз
- The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету Лермонтова
- Николай Гумилев – Заводи
- The Fire by Nin Andrews
- Robert Burns: I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain:
- Untitled XX by Yunus Emre
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- The Tree by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet XII. On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour poem – John Keats poems
- I Am Of Ireland by William Butler Yeats
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