R.D. Morgan

seneca guns & other phenomena

  1. thinking of kissing   you I move
  2.  
  3. my tongue across     my pills
  4.  
  5. [my pillow dampened by morning's distraction]
  6.  
  7. your lips could split an ocean
  8.  
  9. o how your mouth broke me
  10.  
  11. [I push the sand grit from my face]
  12.  
  13. o how you threw me   from continental shelf to unforgiving
  14.  
  15.    atlantic abyss
  16.  
  17.       [from the salt smudged window I see the pelican
  18.  
  19.       its silent flight abovethe shore reeling
  20.  
  21.       against the wind's extended release]
  22.  
  1.  
  2. I am familiar w/the sound of cannon fire
  3.  
  4. I say the sound of seneca guns is nearly identical
  5.  
  6. [but is passion desiring a particularperson a single mysterious other
  7.  
  8. once & for always w/out]
  9.  
  10. boomrattle    rattle boom& it is
  11.  
  12. through  the light
  13.  
  14. in the lighthouse throbbing with antici
  15.  
  16. pation     what it is probably
  17.  
  18. not ghostly weapons
  19.  
  20. industrial disaster global
  21.  
  22. warming   tectonic shifting
  23.  
  24. top secret activity [though we all have secrets some of us
  25.  
  26.    stifling them w/tetracyclics coffee
  27.  
  28.    with artificial sweetener assorted candy
  29.  
  30.    colored reuptake inhibitors six packs
  31.  
  32.    of diet soda& when sleep finally comes secrets
  33.  
  34.    crestthen crash over usleave us
  35.  
  36.    gibbeted in sweat soaked sheets come
  37.  
  38. morning]
  1.  
  2. there is only the invisible
  3.  
  4. weight of your body rumbling in from the seathe length
  5.  
  6. of it stretchingover alabaster
  7.  
  8. lab coatsthe whole of its tender
  9.  
  10. intensity slidingpast seismographs
  11.  
  12. [& when I mention pills I imagine my tongue
  13.  
  14. on the cool moonlit sea glassof bottleI imagine this
  15.  
  16. one wordthis one prayerthis one praise
  17.  
  18. this one regret]
R.D. Morgan lives in the Deep South, and she analyzes websites and markets books online for a living. She earned her MFA in Poetry nearly ten years ago (in 2003).