KAREN NEUBERG
Aren’t We
The necessity of ending is not the necessity of beginning
Gertrude Stein (Identity A Poem)
Aren’t we the more for it, for it not hanging up,
for it the more and moored in bask and glow
the two of us the house the morning fine
as silk, the silk a day unfurling from our hands,
the two of us, some slippery, some pepper.
Aren’t we aware of it, in love with it
as we are love and every asking is an answer
and every morning a new chance;
and don’t we find every day that passes
leaves us with a bit more and yet a less of it at once.
Karen Neuberg's work has appeared in
Barrow Street, Blue Fifth Review,
canwehaveourballback, Columbia Poetry Review, Diner, Elixir, Phoebe, Shampoo, and
The Diagram. She holds
an MFA from The New School. (kneuberg@hotmail.com)