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
- Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman
- To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Multi-Miners & Co. Present Ned Kelly by Graham Rowlands
- The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
- Lincoln by Vachel Lindsay
- Christmas poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant
- Михаил Лермонтов – Ах! Ныне я не тот совсем
- Николай Карамзин – К соловью
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Полозкова – Да что у меня, нормально всё, так, условно
- Василий Жуковский – Светлане
- Broken wings of a Heart by Saajida Gora
- greek_light.html
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