9/16/2016 1 Comment Four Poems by Robert W. Getzwait looking for meaning in the night this night, but the others too one more walk to the fridge one more prayer for silence the day's generosities are slim and even though we talk about good days and bad days, we know they are indifferent ones we walk through whatever magic we can conjure up, illuminate our acceptance of the ordinary any way we can, now i am going to the convenience store, the fridge having been found lacking it may be no more than this, a miracle you forgot to pray for fin i do like the way they wander off at the end of a film there is a perfection and certainty about where they're headed as the music swells, just as they've discovered something deep in their hearts, or learned that they must nobly deny that passion for the sake of some greater good, it doesn't matter, now they're finally alive march of the last mowed down single file to make room for new blooms that impossible equation the god your entire life prepared you to believe in i believe in you now your rich loam, your fertility, your withering doom and joy your invulnerable calendar filament and firmament, light and wind and rain and earth you said that i couldn't dance but i proved you wrong matryoshka sadness within sadness as i drive tired of prying apart all the layers of unhappiness, knowing it tires everyone else out, trying to wiggle out of it on the road as the balloon and its basket disappear in the dusk Bio: Robert W. Getz lives in Glenside, PA. His latest book of poetry is "Pomp and other Circumstances: Poems 2014-2015."
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Maureen Custer
9/16/2016 02:35:44 pm
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