Poetry


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from PLURALITY


 
 

when the new moon comes

first you will forget

and fall asleep

when love calls

already dreaming

and so you answer truthfully

i will take this shape

good morning

is there a crowd of words

untangled from distribution

marry me in the waves of mine enemies

take this chalice for the cup is my body

for sacred my pouring

alchemy suffering into thy bliss

deeper than the multiverse

and so shallow

i hold you to loving me forever

like you said you would when you were inside me

it’ s not the whole of war i want

but mended my terrible articles

on righteous truth

no way to scatter poems

to take the place of bodies bombed

no way to poem

our way out of here

this field: this field of meet

where you slice apart the what next

languages extinct

the mantra of morning never leaves our lips

i will choose better next time

 

Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press and co-director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. She has four books from Lavender Ink. Her forthcoming book is titled PLURALITY.


 
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