YOUNG WRITERS POEMS
2 Poems by Sarah Mitchem
POSTED 2007-05-24 IN YOUNG WRITERS POEMS
Sarah Mitchem is a sharp young writer out of Virginia Tech. She is at once careful, strikingly open, and very exact in her work. These poems, arising from her time in Paros, Greece, where she studied writing at Hellenic International Studies in the Arts, allow a very literary, internal view into an acute self-awareness.
THE WATERLINE
At the harbor a little
fishing boat is tied
to the pier.
The rough water and chopping at it.
I want to get in.
Not to lose myself in its rocking motion,
just desiring to write in the boat
and not worry about slipping away.But I would end up noticing
where the paint is chipped,
what lay at the bottom of the boards,
the colors chosen.
All so that I could transcribe it
faithfully in my journal.
Recording small accuracies and
promising to remember them.
Reciting what’s around me to
avoid what’s in me.Always in this body
but that I don’t know myself,
don’t let my heart rule.
I’m always brought back
to segments of myself.
The way my motions
make people record me.
The Greek men reeling me in by my wrists
so that I struggle to slip onto side streets.
To dissolve there, and dissolve here.I did not get in the boat.
I do not write how salted wood feels.
I did what I do with you.
I imagine the boat.
I record the habits I would perform.
I fail to reconcile.
3 Poems by Allison Noël Seay
POSTED 2007-05-20 IN YOUNG WRITERS POEMS
Allison is a young talented writer out of the Writing Program at the University of North Carolina. She is currently Associate Editor at the "Greensboro Review".
THE NEWLYWEDS
He desired her most in summer—poolside, the wet
nape of her neck, a puzzle book damp on her towel.When she lay down next to him, he startled her
with an ice cube at the small of her back.The heat was as thick as grass. The ice melted
faster than she thought it would. Then,there was no visible trace, only a marked absence
which became the place the sun felt most violentwhich was, I see, the beginning of grief.
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