Following Hope

By Sabne Raznik

Experience is a changeling, that explains all our lives. We follow hope whether we are on a Tibetan Mountain, part of the blue, manic Mardi Gras; know well the burnt-biscuit skin of New Jersey or the sexuality of Morocco. From day to day we follow it through a labyrinth of emotion, vowing Ill come back, for this Dumb Hillbilly has a few more things up her sleeve, as you will see. Let the good language of Sabne Razniks safe place rush over you like horses. She is humming a melody we only ever hear in our dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 12, 2007
• ISBN: 9781462840762

Sabne Raznik

Sabne Raznik- 28 years of the love of language. She lives in the Appalachian Plateau Region of Eastern Kentucky. Her credits include membership in the Academy of American Poets since 1998; a lifetime member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society; a member of Poetry Ireland since 2003; inclusion in Marquis Whos Who of American Women since 2004. Raznik has been published in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and on the Internet. She has been compared to the infamous Bob Dylan, giving rise to the playful title of Rock-n-Roll Poet.

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Following

Hope

S A B N E R A Z N I K

Copyright © 2007 by Sabne Raznik.

Cover Photo: Icarus by Jessica Marshallsay

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Contents

Follow Hope

Valhalla: blue

Dinner Talk

The Bearded Prophet

Dark

A Postcard Home

Love

Atmosphere

All It Means

Underside of Ugly

Giving (In Grey and Green)

Dream: 2 a.m.

Understated

Une Ville

Fingers

Philadelphia

Inside

Budding

Acknowledgements

For my Doppelganger

Follow Hope

Cold, crystallized, and plaited:

A manufactured smile.

Thumb sunk deep into your hip

Cocked way out of joint.

What a chip. What a chip

On your shoulder.

What a broken shoulder.

Eyes of molten lead,

Mouth full of knives,

Smoke rising from holes

Where your heart was once.

A waste. A