Should I Say Unsayables? by Janet I. Buck   

        

????????????????Should I Say Unsayables?

Scene One: ???Decent health. ?A pulse with money in the bank.
? ? ?????????????Running through a forest?s glade
?????????????????on feet you never think about. ?

Scene Two: ???A heart attack. ?A surgery. ?Stockings on ten granted toes.
?????????????????A size too tight. ?Gangrene sets in. ?Knives and saws
?????????????????detach old bliss. ?One above a poisoned knee. ?One below.
?????????????????Legs, a page of scrapbooks gone.

Scene Three: ?Rigor mortis of the dark that pockets suns, 
?????????????????stashes them in places where the devil sleeps 
?????????????????and files his nails on passing tombs.

Scene Four: ???A woman calls to yank you from despairing caves. ?
????? ? ?????????She knows the leather gist of scars. ?Her smile
?????????????????a flat anathema to trials tearing up your soul.

"Should I say unsayables?" ?The air is dry with severance and prayers seem
gnats on fingertips looking at Mt. Everest. ?Horrors float in urine cups 
of destiny; sometimes blood seems everywhere, but in the heart where it 
belongs. ?Phantoms rule the muscles left. ?The sea of pain is never sweet. 
Seizures rule and gods do not. ?The only consolation prize is strength you 
never knew you had. You'll want to paint the mirror black. ?

Copyright © 2001 by Janet I. Buck.

Janet Buck's poetry, poetics, and fiction have appeared in CrossConnect, The Melic Review, Kimera, Recursive Angel, Southern Ocean Review, Stride Magazine, Urban Spaghetti, In Motion, OffCourse, Samsara Quarterly, Big Bridge, The Paumanok Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and a variety other print and internet publications. ?She is a two-time Pushcart Nominee, a recent recipient of The H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence, and one of six winning poets in the Kota Press Anthology Contest. ??In December 1999, Newton?s Baby Press released her first print collection of poetry entitled Calamity?s Quilt. Three others have followed in its wake: ? Reefs We Live, Bookmarks in a Hurricane, and Before the Rose. Janet was one of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000. ?In the year 2001, Buck?s poetry is scheduled to appear in The Montserrat Review, The Amercian Muse, The Carriage House Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Rockhurst Review, and dozens of journals world-wide.

Visit Ms. Buck's web site at www.JanetBuck.com. Be sure to check out her books and CD.

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