Bikes 2

Susan Brennan

when I arrive, you still want

the unimproved me

a new green of me

spinning spring earth

tossing disks of clay

 

that’s the way I’ve always loved

from a hungry distance

unreal elastic emotions from space

how they hurl

how they hit the surface

 

and blue flowers float into stars

I open my mouth to say I’m sorry

the tender of ink of night–

why the fuck is it tender?  who knows…

traces daylight shapes

 

I came here for you

but still, a lover’s voice bubbles

around everything we say

he wrapped me in a towel

said go ahead, be a kid again

 

you move your hand to my face

we joke about your cruel obsessions

it’s all very soap opera wish I didn’t care kind of acting

can we stay here

one steady day

 

without chemo on your hairless mind

without runaway daughters chasing candy dreams

without the men we loved and lost

without our girlhood as a sunset

stay with me, let’s make it with Freddy, bucktoothed

 

and viral, our Queen a la mode our shitty lives

strut and deliver

life’s muse a sailor memory

sexually disarranged

standing on the furniture spun Sundays

 

you say you can’t remember

from turntable POV

everything sprung in and out of life

the flowers are floating

their little root balls curled and fist ready

 

Susan Brennan is a poet, screenwriter and activist. Her poems can be found in her chapbooks and book, Blue Sirens (Dancing Girl Press), numinous (Finishing Line Press), and Drunken Oasis (Rattapallax Press) and various publications. She curates poetry programming (WanderWord) at Wilco’s Solid Sound Music Festival, MASS MoCA. With a circus-arts company, she co-produced and staged her poem Chromoluminarism about Georges Seurat’s final painting (RGB NYC). She has written film scripts, a one million hit plus award winning web-series, pitched film stories, and co-produced a short film, of which have premiered at Austin, Venice and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as a screening at MoMA. Being a part of Lotus's Spring Clover Edition has her feeling sassy through and through. See what she’s up to at www.tinycubesofice.com.

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