The Jivin' Ladybug #2

Home | Submit! | ISSUE 2 CONTENTS: | Heller Levinson (#2) | John Olson | Will Alexander | D. Michael Jones | Ken Cormier | Anthony Seidman | Lily Cho (#2) | Clayton Eshleman (#2) | Peruvian Poetry (Translated by Anthony Seidman) | Pierre Joris | Coulter Watt | Adrian Paulsen | Mary Newell | Book Reviews (#2) | ISSUE 1 CONTENTS: | Heller Levinson ( #1) | A "Poemic" | Andrew Roberts | Jared Demick Translations | Lily Cho (#1) | Lily Cho Photos | Chris Degon | Chris Degon Photos | Paige Hill | Exquisite Corpuscle | Jared Demick | Book Reviews (#1) | Clayton Eshleman

Mary Newell

[If] not love

 

Tomorrow

I’ll be tangled in a teaching web

administering words.

Tonight, tho,

not knowing your last name

or origins

I smile to see you

enter.

 

Following your every step

I synchronize to your syncopation

figure your feints, mostly,

laugh when I’m caught off-guard

 

We match each other’s pressure

Then let each other go.

 

Since it’s not love,  

it must be

tango

 

where all’s fair too.

 

The Jivin' Ladybug- A Skewered Journal of the Arts
 
All rights for materials presented on The Jivin' Ladybug belong to the artists. All materials are for non-commercial and / or educational use only.