Two Poems
Lynne Kuderko
According to a Proverb
Two antelope walk together so that
one can blow dust from the other's eyes.
A man walks out onto the street. Perhaps
he hurries, perhaps he is going to meet a woman,
who may or may not be beautiful. A cloud in the sky.
Perhaps it will rain, perhaps
there will be days of unrelenting sun. [End Page 169]
Marriage
March19, Venus and Saturn in the sky
make a trio with this slit of moon busy cradling
the black ball of its unlit side. Astronomers describe
the moon as 30 minutes across, and the planets,
a minute apart. So close, you could hold up a finger,
blot them out, it would seem. So too a man
and a woman, moving through the space of their marriage.
Lynne Kuderko's poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Poetry Review, Passages North, and Luna. Her chapbook The Corner of Absence was published by Flume Press.
