by Richard Martin
I
love life
I
said
Up
against the moon
With
time
On
a fishhook
That
day
In
a bloom of chrysanthemums
You
moved next door
Until
we met like weather reports
About
a frozen lake
Get
skates I shouted
During
the pandemonium
Of
the first kiss
The
romantic soul
Refused
to die
Like
you
I
was caffeine dark
In
the forest
Of
metaphor –
Animals
awake and hungry
During
the magnificent reign of sun
We
plundered fortune found
In
fluid bodies
I
surrendered absence
You
looted my mind
______________________________
Richard Martin is the author of five books of poetry, including White Man Appears on Southern California Beach(Bottom Fish Press, 1991) and Under the Sky of No Complaint (Lavender Ink/Fell Swoop, 2013). His work has appeared in Fell Swoop, ACM, Exquisite Corpse, Gargoyle, Artichoke Haircut, Shattered Wig (post) and unarmed. He is also the author of boink!, an antimemoir, published by Lavender Ink (New Orleans, 2005) and four chapbooks. A past recipient of a NEA Poetry Fellowship, he founded and coordinated the Big Horror Poetry Reading Series in Binghamton, New York, from 1982-1996. He lives in Boston.
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