Leonore Wilson
Leonore Wilson has had poems published in Third Coast, Quarterly West, English Journal, Madison Review, .....Forge
Marriage has its corresponding instruments
To those slung up by leather strops or
Propped against a jamb of weathered wood beam.
How we walk around the dangerous symbols
Of anvil, pitchfork, shovel; iron, metal.
One hard breath could mean the fantail
Of a million sparks, a stampede, a shattering
Enough to take the years to task, thus
Some may say our happiness is choreographed.
We are rigged as man and wife, a bag
Of knives; we don't publish feeling;
Grief and hunger are rarely spoken, held inside
Like those tool stalactites paralyzed precariously
At an angle; and so day in day out we move
Predictable, head bobbing, forgetting what we're able.
