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 IV by William Shakespeare
- Lover’s Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
- Elegy VI. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Федор Сологуб – Лепестками завялыми
- Михаил Кузмин – Зачем в тот вечер роковой
- Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Наум Коржавин – Осень в Караганде
- The Queen’s Rival by Sarojini Naidu
- Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid by William Shakespeare
- STRANGE HAPPENINGS by Satish Verma
- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
- The Morning Breeze by Mousumi Guha Roy
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