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
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Under The Round Tower by William Butler Yeats
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- Владимир Степанов – Как живете? Что жуете?
- The Neophyte poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- His Confidence by William Butler Yeats
- Аля Кудряшева – Ночное
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- Song of Myself by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Маяковский – Весна (Город зимнее снял)
- Snake Pit by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Tempore Senectutis poem – Ezra Pound poems
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
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