• Poetry

    “Come Next Spring” by Paul Bamberger

    October 1, 2019 /
    “the epochal consciousness has turned a somersault in the void”
    Karl Jaspers
    from: Man in Modern Times
    come next spring this category will swing its gate closed
    yes yes we’re ready
    but who are they these poets
    we have no idea
    could they be the wicked little joke we never quite understood but laughed at anyway
    we don’t believe so
    misdemeanors unallotted time and space
    more than that
    much more
    a fight to the draw perhaps
    that would be too sad
    could they be a metaphor lost to an empty conclusion
    too far afield
    why then don’t we just say they are mercy screaming down a hill after waking the bones
    the scavenging moon in chase
    you might be onto something here
    and do they come back often
    yes come in spring so we are told
    looking for what
    who knows
    i have heard they suffer bad mood swings
    we’ll see
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    Paul Bamberger received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Writing Program.

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