The Devil Take Your Mother
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The devil take your mother,the devil take your father,who grimly stood and blocked mefrom watching you in the theater.
At last they sat down and gave mea glimpse, for a fleeting second,of you in the loge behind them,and secretly, you beckoned.
And they sat and watched as lovewas perverted with suspicion,and clapped with wild approvalwhen the lovers went to perdition. [End Page 198]
Terese Coe
TERESE COE's poems and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, The Stinging Fly, The Threepenny Review, and The Times Literary Supplement, among others. Her poem "More," heli-dropped across London in the Rain of Poems at the 2012 London Olympics, is in her latest collection, Shot Silk.
