Poet Wrestling with God as One of Us
- Poet Wrestling with God as One of Us
Will regret make you betterI must break you o contender youCould've been but the force isNot with you &Anymore,Blue steel & pen-ultimate& glorious neverto cross the finish & sheRescues him right back likeOne of usShe's finally & quiteMerry as one of usTotally skipsLiving in no man's & ampi-theaters & no empiresAs glorious as everythingIs perfect nowJust wormholes in loveWith lunar rogues & everythingExplodes & peaks & lulls everything trulyLoving its dark matter & everythingJust a heavenly slob like one of us& getting sloppywith X& creating little quasarsGlory glory & a little tendernessJust a little a bitShe just wants usPost-quadratic & post-InfiniteWars youStill can't stopBeating your drumheadBlaring your horns even whenShe's one of us whenThe pictures get too small& you're all out of bubblegum & first rulesOf fight clubs that make you such [End Page 24] A bitter manAre you not merry nowAre you notLittle lambNo needs a hero when She'sOne of us but the sun's going to cave in when She'sAll of us & still you askew & flail oh oh when when will it [End Page 25]
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow; her most recent collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was selected as Agape Editions' EDITORS' CHOICE, and will be published in 2019. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC.
