Poems by Sullivan Rosemary
A Child's Alone
... e horse at the ranchand told her to be braveshe knew she mustn't show the fearthat sat in her throat ...
Double Take
... they leaned,tired but expectant,or the musky smellof their nostalgic look --Suddenly the double take ...
Euclid Street
... , standing on a porch thinkingof the slow decantation of livesand she can't put together its meaning ...
Farmer's Daughter
... d for the strong manwho came from the skyin a World War II movieto fold his body over youlike a cape ...
Passe-Port
... s into historyand repeat themselves like litanies:the family,bone-ladder you descendedfrom somewhere ...
She walked into our lives like she invented us (4)
... We all needed. What's called loveis ravenoustrailing its beautiful death ...
The universe is as close as the veins in your neck
... The angle seemed askew,an enigmatic grin hangingat the end of the highway,a last orange gasp ...
The way, in a rainstorm, the sky (5)
... body and placed it in the ambulance and you climbed upwhatever fantasy could save youback into life ...
The Witness
... es swell on the facethat wasn't my facebut a child's cowering in a cornerwaiting for the rip of love ...
