The American Poetry Review

FIVE POEMS

A Lovely World

I am walking through the hotel
Every time I am so sad
That I want to die

It’s a place where I can keep
Everything I’ve never been
Brave enough to get to

Poets have moons and money
To get themselves through
The longest night imaginable

But I’ve had these rooms
To beckon me
With their own brand of patience

The warmest rose emanates
From the hall near my bedroom
I’ll enter if you will

I know that in this worldI willBut you let go of life, with a thud

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