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
- Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Disappointment
- Олег Бундур – Чайковский
- The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
- The Freedom Of Poetry by Ndue Ukaj
- Winter by William Shakespeare
- An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
- To Dorothy Wellesley by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не надо
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- The Withdrawal by Robert Lowell
- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
