The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 3/1/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Domesticity

Some days I could burn
bookshelves, carve weapons
from the wreckage, drive
fearlessly past dogs and bandits.
I could rocket through towns
of dust. I could destroy
the sheriff’s good name.
Then night slips around me
and the bedroom is lit
with a strand of small lights.
My body admits to calm.
I am the same size,
but still. Outside an owl
calls evenly across the quiet,
and I ride that note,
grateful, into sleep.
But this is a warning.
Someday I could drive
the car into the ocean. I could
smash the phone, tear pages
from the dictionary. I could
make threats all my life.
Don’t think I won’t.

Catherine Pierce

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RL

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[zingaro]

1. This

is a dangerously timed read, given the current revelations in my actual life.

But this is a warning.
Someday I could drive
the car into the ocean. I could
smash the phone, tear pages
from the dictionary.

Don't think I won't.

[Callalily]

2. How perceptive!

Yes, there are days when I too feel invincible but then those dark, quiet times come around, those self-reflecting times and a whole different set of emotions settle in.

:hi: Stay safe RL!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro.........

Talk about hidden waters!

This housewife is anything but ordinary.......

Domesticity can hide many things!

Most excellent poem......Thank you!

:hug: