Dear You
By JK Larkin
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Bringing together the pieces of over two dozen poets from across the globe, "Dear You-Poems Through The Heart" offers readers the opportunity to peek inside the minds and souls of the broken-hearted.
While love may be written about in droves, perhaps we can take just a little bit more from the words we have to share on the other end of it
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Dear You - JK Larkin
all I wanted was some fucking fruit
– Matt Martinek
And there you were, that bright angel face
ascending over the tops of the cantaloupes
I was inspecting so closely.
Startled is not the word.
I would have hidden behind the rotting bananas had I spotted you.
How do you speak after 15 years of nothingness, filled with only fantasy
and the fleeting glimpses of could-have-beens?
What do you say? I’m sorry? We would have been great together?
Do I need to tell you that I think about you all the time and pretend
you are my wife
and I am your husband
and we are the sexy couple on the crinkled postcard from Hawaii
that always falls from the fridge into the dog dish
because our magnets are crap?
The worst possible thing happens…you give me a hug and I find out that
you wear that same hypnotic perfume from high school
I wished I would wake up to someday, maybe everyday.
We speak on unimportant things…our childhood school is now a parking lot,
how you’re making it work in Philly and I am doing wonderful back at home,
and all the while I am scoping out those tanned legs,
thinking of how well they would wrap around my waist.
You know, I know, but we stop just short of pure truth,
that awkward moment arriving when the words cease
and we speak only through our eyes, our cue
to retreat with the usual nod and well wishes.
You proceed to the checkout line, your front wheel
on the grocery cart screeching horribly and wobbling,
just as they always do.
Your back being turned to me, I mouth the words
I love you
in silence.
Melissa’s Poem
– Shai Afsai
Mom is scheduled to call
in about an hour.
I open a bottle of wine.
___
On the second date,
I express an opinion.
It’s over.
___
I meet up with three friends for cocktails,
just like the girls from Sex and the City –
except we’re not in New York, and I don’t like my friends.
___
Making the bed alone,
the sheets won’t stay in place.
But he never helped with that either.
___
Clearly the woman on the mat to my right
is convinced deodorant and yoga
are mutually exclusive.
___
He explains that women keep living longer
and men are dying younger.
I sleep with him anyway.
___
Now I have a thing for guys with beards –
but after a few weeks or a month, I push them to shave.
They do, and we break up soon after.
___
Driving back from my sister’s,
I remember:
I hated her even when we were kids.
___
He’s muscled, with arms covered in tattoos,
and tells me the more he looks like an ex-con,
the more women are drawn to him. I’m drawn.
___
He tells me he divorced his second wife after she allowed
his stepdaughter to buy a pet rabbit over his objections.
Somehow this makes sense to me.
___
He says he spent three months in the far east,
and that yoga changed his life.
I trick myself into believing I’ve met someone interesting.
___
He’s twelve years older. Before #MeToo, I’d have told women
he was my former high school teacher, just to get a reaction,
and half of them would’ve said, That’s hot!
___
Xanax inside
the white pharmacy bag –
no need to die now.
Outrageous Things I Will Not Do Today – after Cherie Hanson
– Sally Quon
I will not buy the twelve-dollar dress I found on-line,
all flounces and lace