1/24/2017 0 Comments Three Poems by Carla ManfredinoOn the pier We changed that winter when the leaves dried and turned in on themselves. The sea stays the same standing on the shore it is seasonless. But then turn and see the leafless trees scratch complicated shapes on an otherwise soft sky their upturned hands damning and blameless. As if they were always this empty as though their wigs were a joke in the spring. We walked along the iron bones of a road that wanted to grow to the size of the horizon- did we look back and see the trees whipped clean? Is that why we’re abbreviated and the sea is complete? Forgetting when one day was far away now time is played like an accordion that does not open back out. When I think of hills I see a catch all picture for all hilly things when I try to stack these hills in front of my eyes, I hear our words the same sounds, sometimes louder. That sound: water over rocks I came here to see where we sat, from a distance but all I see is the same feeling shaping the place. hello tree you’ve been torn in a storm but you drink like it’s a sunny day. The back of you is charred like steak, inside the crack you are clean as a snake. Dried wings of summer’s leaves hang with the unflown birds come and live on you and weave their twigs and leave freely. You will outlive us. The edge edges closer each day. Your decline is romantic. Little lives come to you and grow through you silently tearing the careful pavements, we will be still and clutching to your roots when you break your concrete feet and you move move move ---------- Image - Stephanie Kac https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniekac/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Bio: Carla is a freelance writer living in Wales. Her story JOHN was published in Electric Read's Young Writer's Anthology 2016 and her poems have appeared in Dirty Chai, Squawckback, and The New Welsh Review. Carla reads poetry submissions for The White Review and writes reviews for The TLS, Wales Arts Review and The New Welsh Review. She is working on a collection of short stories based on the human spirit's response to boredom and isolation set in a seaside town.
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