#zygote
Love Is Not Love
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Love is not love that never looked
within itself and questioned all,
curled up like a zygote in a ball,
throbbed, sobbed and shook.
(Or went on a binge at a nearby mall,
then would not cook.)
Love is not love that never winced,
then smiled, convinced
that soar’s the prerequisite of fall.
When all
its wounds and scars have been saline-rinsed,
where does Love find the wherewithal
to try again,
endeavor, when
all that it knows
is: O, because!
Published by The Neovictorian/Cochlea, The Deronda Review, Better Than Starbucks and Stremez (translated into Macedonian by Marija Girevska)
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Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 3:28 AM UTC
be still as stereo,
so you can peep the wilting filigree
of the blooming expanse
we rarely ever care to choke on.
breathe is a question
whispered by oceans and i use
it coax this **** out of
lotus seeds.
why?
Nov 10, 2018
Nov 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM UTC