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
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Вани перед студентами
- The Neighbor by Marge Piercy
- The Bwoat by William Barnes
- Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy by Robert Burns
- Imitation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Выхожу один я на дорогу – Лермонтов: Стихотворение, читать текст стиха Михаила Лермонтова – Poetry Monster
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- Sing Me A Rainbow by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Бундур – Бесконечность
- A Girl Was Singing In A Church Choir poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
- TRUNCATED by Satish Verma
- National Trust by Tony Harrison
- Олег Сердобольский – Птенчик
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