Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan

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Date created: April 2010

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Consider A Move

The steady time of being unknown,

in solitude, without friends,

is not a steadiness that sustains.

I hear your voice waver on the phone:

Haven't talked to anyone for days.

I drive around. I sit in parking lots.

The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits.

What should I say? There are ways

to meet people you will want to love?

I know of none. You come out stronger

having gone through this? I no longer

believe that, if I once did. Consider a move,

a change, a job, a new place to live,

someplace you'd like to be. That's not it,

you say. Now time turns back. We almost touch.

Then what is? I ask. What is?

Tags: loneliness moving solitude

THIS IS WHY

He will never be given to wonder much

if he was the mouth for some cruel force

that said it. But if he were

(this will comfort her) less than one moment

out of millions had he meant it.

So many years and so many turns

they had swerved around the subject.

And he will swear for many more

the kitchen and everything in it vanished --

the oak table, their guests, the refrigerator door

he had been surely propped against--

all changed to rusted ironwork and ash

except in the center in her linen caftan:

she was not touched.

He remembers the silence before he spoke

and her nodding a little,

as if in the meat of this gray waste

here was the signal

for him to speak what they had long agreed,

what somewhere they had prepared together.

And this one moment in the desert of ash

stretches into forever.

They had been having a dinner party.

She had been lonely.

A friend asked her almost joking

if she had ever felt really crazy,

and when she started to unwind her answer

in long, lovely sentences like scarves within her

he saw this was the way

they could no longer talk together.

And that is when he said it,

in front of the guests,

because he couldn't bear to hear her.

And this is why the guests have left

and she screams as he comes near her.

Tags: connections crazy desperation poetry

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