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
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
- The Poor Lover to His Rich Mistress about to Marry His Coxcombly Rival by William Wycherley
- All Thats Not Love
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn
- Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac:
- A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare by William Butler Yeats
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
- The Search by Pornika Ganguly
- Владимир Гиляровский – Чем дальше в море
- Petals poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- Three Women by Sylvia Plath
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