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Amy
Holman is
a poet and prose writer from the Garden State, yet living in Brooklyn.
She teaches writers how to get published and directs the Literary
Horizons program at Poets & Writers, Inc. Poems have been published
in
The Best American Poetry 1999, Poet Lore, The
Metropolitan Review, CrossConnect, The Brooklyn Review
Online, Mystic River Review and in out-of-print chapbooks
from Linear Arts Books. Her reviews, articles and essays have been
published in The Cortland Review, Poets & Writers Magazine,
SideRoad, Frigate, and an Espresso Press anthology, The
History of Panty Hose In America.
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Migratory
Song
Amy
Holman
Missing
my flight from the San Francisco Airport –
missing
the signs – I see large wings dragging the shoulder
of
the Bay Bridge as a beige, ungainly thing shudders.
Either
you live life or you write about it,
John
says, never landing long enough to know you write
life's
longing so as to live. Once, our family traveled cross
country
by train, drove up California's coast, rode
the
rails home again. Don't run, Mom called,
as
we slipped from her grasp, through passenger and sleep
cars,
dining and game cars, linking and unlinking. Large-
winged New Englanders map in song the journey ahead
with
the one behind, and I never come nearer
than
here in the song of the lines on the page. But
John
needs his large wings to outwit our ungainly past.
Where's my brother, I ask, inclining towards irony in
my longing to forgive my longing for him. |
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