When You Never Said Goodbye by Meg Kearney

When You Never Said Goodbye by Meg Kearney

Author:Meg Kearney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Persea
Published: 2017-07-08T16:00:00+00:00


St. Patrick’s Day Haiku

Green bagels, green beer,

green dog biscuits: even they

are Irish today

Frozen: My First Student Reading/

Mixer at the Café Du Monde

Like a snow woman. Like a deer in the road

at midnight. Like the lions on the library steps.

Like the statues of saints in church—only

my face isn’t serene. It’s a gargoyle face,

it’s that deer’s face; it’s wide-eyed terrified.

I’d thought I could read a poem before a crowd

but instead I’m stuck in my seat, unable to

stand. Louise read her “Loud as Silence” poem



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