Bio: gary lundy's poems have appeared
most recently in The Collidescope, Filling Station, Shark
Reef, and Belladona Literary Magazine. each room echoes
absence, was released by FootHills Publishing (March 2018). gary is a
retired English professor and queer living in Missoula, Montana.
perhaps history won't have
the energy to
repeat this time
perhaps our name
will change
along with the
failing daylight
sustenance improbabilities
a
knock on what may
be your
door only when
opened it
wasn't visitors
barred by the
virus whose names
soar
overhead at all
hours as if
the music that
plays on repeat
heard newly
original oscillates
another stolen
moment
belonging to an
alternative you
loosening their
minds pause
in the softness
becoming
you are right of
course
there are times bereft of
activity their legs bare
and covered in a film of fine
hair never doubt an opening
retrieves more than simple
sadness and the disease
elopes through walls doors
windows last night we
stumbled on the uneven
flooring and almost fell
breaking into that trust
worthy vision of you
drinking coffee lips aflame
in heat a trumpet races
through improvised note
patterns the future remains
open ended even when
we've fallen out of it
subterfuge enormous in its
pliable skin you
are set ajar
as memories defy
linear
gravity time
lines their letter
falls out of the
presorted
pages disquieting
previous
confidences we scramble
to
find a usable
excuse for so
many pens a
disappearance
mock driven to an
intercourse
derived from a
problematic
sense of self as
suddenly you
return to the
small house
hidden in the
middle of
gravel alley in
the old part of
town it's unusually
balmy for
a few days inside
a new year
we play an old
recording of
piano music long
lost to
personal
appearance what is
it about some
things so
common they break
into new
avenues of escape
take care
in listing those
items going
where after the
move you
ruminate upon
past wrongs
to give ownership
to breath
multiverse poems to remind us to respect one another and the right to diverge
ReplyDeleteYour poems caught me up in a rush of imagery and feeling. I felt pulled through a energy vortex of daily living.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poems encompassing the now and contextualize some drops of hope for this moment and the next.
ReplyDeleteExcellent poems capturing now in a context of some drops of hope for this moment and the next.
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