POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
Millions of Americans have been affected by identity theft. It’s probably the greenhouse gases.
He has stories that I am not in
anymore. It’s healed this way.
We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…
it’s touch-and-go with me and weddings
we drove on through
the blue seal of morning as the turbines
turned and winked out their hearts
and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud
here is the sky in stop motion, flickering,
a still shot in monochrome
Ghosts for hire, whispers in her mouth,
cysts to feel, the symmetry of a gift.
my love is a glass shard, a knife made of madness and moonlight,
and there are already way too many fragments in this house
I imagine that undressing a color, though, would be so much like peeling a memory away from the grey and the white matter of your brain.
It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.