by meghanleborious | Jan 4, 2018 | Poetics
There is a quiet blizzard
Filling the night,
Covering the tree branches
Outside the window.
It is just as it was a year ago
During Simon’s first week of life.
I remember the magic of falling in love,
The flow of day into night
And into day again,
Silver trains gliding silently by on the bridge.
And the hush that surrounds urgency
Making it seem petty
Against the stillness of snow
by meghanleborious | Jan 4, 2018 | Poetics
It is too cold for shadows
This sky is still streaked with sunrise.
Inside a reverent hush
I participate by moving slowly
And speaking in a whisper.
6 January 2011
by newperson | Jun 23, 2017 | Poetics
The last day of third grade
Is so clear.
There are cupcakes and gold stars.
You can give the lastness of it
Your full attention.
Not so the last time I saw my friend
(alive)
The last time I roller skated to work,
The last time I drew you,
Or the last time we made love,
And slept together,
Held and holding.
2 June, 2010
by newperson | Jun 23, 2017 | Poetics
Let me not flatten you out
For my own comfort, my love.
If you call yourself a morning person,
Then dance all night,
I’ll not consider it defection.
An old pattern twitches in my mind,
Like birds pointed south.
Thank you for understanding
Why I don’t have a favorite color.
It is not that I lack vibrancy,
But, rather, that I prefer to embrace fluidity.
So many seem capable only
Of perceiving what they know in themselves—
Assigning words and phrases to traits and qualities,
Then deciding whether or not they align with their own.
I squirm under this imposition of coordinates
This disrespect for wild mind
These petty strains of knowing.
A hundred black birds
Swoop and arc as one
Their gestures like a huge trick kite.
I once saw their conductor—
A man with a giant swath of fabric
Dancing on the rooftop–
A hungry ghost, an aching specter,
Directing the birds’ gestures.
I realize now that dreamt him.
1998