Yearning: A Ghazal
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Yearning: A Ghazal
Before mother, there was no one. She reminds and reminds me of that.
The heaving fish on the cutting board watches as I sharpen the knife.
The radio moans, but I don’t shut it off: some people dance.
Once I found a tongue in a butcher’s trash and held it to my ear.
From a lecture: “A miracle must be announced in advance to be a miracle.”
Rich by some standards, I water the dying flowers just long enough to remember you. [End Page 137]
Rich Levy
Rich Levy is a poet and, since 1995, executive director of Inprint, a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Pool, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, High Plains Literary Review, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere.
