Forever Lightpalm desert, californiaMore alive the body unlit. Body made visible after dawn. Seconds of kissing a man & I touching. Body the gods decide should riverspin. Arms and legs invisible in seconds. When I wake, a gun nesting in my place. Proof a man sunk is a man inanimate. Yet surely somewhere dark there I am. Chest disintegrating lips: a feast of blue. No skin to feed the earth so I face up. Bones green from a long bed of moss. Memory a shorn path through the forest. Yet still regret is silver and more silver. Body beaming light through the trees. Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His recent work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal , The Iowa Review , Sixth Finch , Colorado Review , Best New Poets 2014 , and Indiana Review , among others. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal . He lives in Philadelphia, where he is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Find him online at www.peterlaberge.com. |