N/ever

This entry is part 14 of 29 in the series Morning Porch Poems: Winter 2012-13

And the poem: does it hold you,
welcome you, swallow you whole?

Does it burrow in you like a secret,
wind the key a little tighter

in the lock, unravel like a bright
string of yarn plucked from a sleeve?

Does it send down the night like a maw
or use the silhouettes of trees for fringe?

When nothing stirs, it’s easy to think
the mountain’s cold heart won’t thaw.

Luisa A. Igloria
01 22 2013

In response to an entry from the Morning Porch.

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About Luisa A. Igloria

Poet Luisa A. Igloria (website) is the author of Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) and 8 other books. When she isn’t writing, reading, or teaching, she cooks with her family, hand-binds books, listens to tango music, and keeps her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings.
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One Response to N/ever

  1. hierophanta says:

    Love this poem! thank you for sharing! Your poem brought me back to the one that thawed my mountain heart full of atrophy which was Ennui by Plath. Every line here sings the song of how that poem destroyed me and how, in its wake, it remade me.

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