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
- Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- The Truce of the Bear by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Remorse: Fragment
- Robert Burns: Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell: Of Glenriddell and Friars’ Carse.
- Ballade Of The Bookworm poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
- Points And Lines poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Чупров – Комар
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- Shame
- Guy Faux’s Night by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Tam Samson’s Elegy: When this worthy old sportman went out, last muirfowl season, he supposed it was to be, in Ossian’s phrase, “the last of his fields,” and expressed an ardent wish to die and be buried in the muirs. On this hint the author composed his elegy and epitaph.-R.B., 1787.
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вечер после дождя
- Nikolai Gumilev –
- Summer Stillness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
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