Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront
by Martina Reisz Newberry
I’ve come to know the way the
details of love are a prayer
or maybe a polite demand
that sets God’s teeth on edge.
We most certainly did that:
set God’s teeth on edge. Our prayer
became fetus and I shed
it—dough—before it could
become bread. That was the
only Amen we’d know. We chose
love, then song, then grief, then
surgery, rending us one
from the other. We rescued
nothing, retained nothing,
leveled our landscape. Long
after Us, I decided
to go on tour, wrestling words,
fighting voodoo, casting spells.
You disappeared. Your image
has stayed on though—makes me
edgy if I call it up.
What does all of this make me?
A Veteran of Foreign
Loves, shuffling along salted
corridors, watching the stars
leak melted ice cream or
maybe a composer of
the Symphony of Sneezing?
Well, loved one, if you remember
Us, me, Us, whatever…
if you do, think of noontimes
that never achieved grace,
evaporated words.
Think of sexual anesthesia,
how it finally failed,
rising, falling, drowning in thunder.
End of the poem
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- Владимир Степанов – Утёнок (Буква У)
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- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold by William Shakespeare
- Long I waited in vain
- Новелла Матвеева – Маяк
- Robert Burns: No Churchman Am I:
- Шекспир – Я дорого ценю любовь твою – Сонет 87
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
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- Sonnet CVII by William Shakespeare
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