They cut me open, gave me you. My heart Stopped and then started again. Here’s what The doctors don’t say: outside you, a second heart lives now, beating, bleeding, fragile and cut off from you, but connected by mouth and arms. You touched me with your hunger, your fingers on my face as if you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘formal poetry’
Year One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Lynn, sonnet on April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Birth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Lynn, sonnet on April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Didn’t we know you would always be difficult? Even before you were born, you turned and twisted my insides. So it began. All we wanted was you, before we learned your sex, your name, the intensity of night and your cries. Before you opened your eyes, saw me, gave me life. You had a light [...]
Running Sonnet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Lynn, running, sonnet on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On days I run before dawn, my fav- orite sight is blue-black becoming pink. If it’s afternoon, I prefer feeling my legs moving, quickly, through warmth. I think I run therefore I am, but actually, I am therefore I run, as our ancestors must have, running from lions or toward lambs or just the next [...]
Battlestar Galactica sonnet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Lynn, poem, sonnet on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I need Battlestar Galactica, the way a junkie needs smack, an addiction more fierce than lust, a need that may lead to more need, how, when the story moves toward resolution we approach myth, every character becomes an archetype: the leader, the rebel, the heroine. I want to be the pissed off, ass-kicking Starbuck: pilot, [...]
April 3 Spring Pantoum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Justin, pantoum on April 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Euphorbia myrsinites When pulses of light heave to air the bulge and bloom of growth, around late March through April, if you walk along a certain trail the bulge and bloom of growth as alien as a neon sign will stop you. If you walk along a certain trail you will see a plant that [...]
Spring Pantoum (april 3)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged formal poetry, Lynn, pantoum, poem, rain on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the damp gray-green morning I believe that the rain will rain forever, that the sun is an idea we’ve forgotten, been forgotten by I believe the rain will rain until we rise, weeping, the tears we’ve forgotten, been forgotten by for weeks, while the sun professed Until we rise, weeping, the tears will decay, [...]
