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
- Portrait of Rage and Age poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin
- Ape And Coffee by Russell Edson
- Bicycle Ride by Pat Mullan
- Вера Павлова – Память, дырявый мешок
- Xai Kou0
- The New Path
- Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Высотская – Здравствуй, праздник
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Verses Left by Mr. Pope poem – Alexander Pope
- Rain all along by Mukeshkumar Raval
- Николай Заболоцкий – Воздушное путешествие
- Владимир Высоцкий – От скучных шабашей смертельно уставши
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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).
