Fuego
Her fire burns true.
It inspires desire
in a small room
where desperation
usually resides.
He riffles through
photos of her past,
filling in background
stories to have them
make some sense.
She wants to shake
the world with her art,
brutal honesty
couched in metaphor
and practiced bluster.
She has been hurt,
abandoned, bludgeoned
emotionally, but she
makes no excuses,
seeks no apology.
Her life is hyper,
not really real.
He sees this innocence
in-between posed
black and white portraits.
Tell her to smile
at your own risk.
She is emblem
of new strength,
the kind that
weds ego and pride
to the assembled panel
that discusses sex
as casual necessity,
no different from
any other office supply,
a means to achieve
an end through which
new story begins.
Gary
Glauber
Gary
Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist.
His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
nominations. His two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and
Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), and a chapbook, Memory Marries
Desire (Finishing Line Press), are available through Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, and directly from the publishers.
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