Gregory Luce
Weldon Kees Walks to the Golden Gate
His sad and usual heart, dry as a winter leaf.
—Weldon Kees
Will a heart float
if detached from the body
that carries it? Is the heart
a rock or a balloon?
What happens when
the weight of the body
compresses around it?
How does it leap
into the throat? When
the heart sinks where
does it go? Do you still
have a heart to break?
Could you break it yourself
if you had to?
Gregory Luce is the author of Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications, 2010), Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013), and Tile (Finishing Line Press, 2016). In addition to numerous journals, his poems have appeared in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press, 2008), Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing, 2011), Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects (CreateSpace, 2016) and Candlesticks and Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries (CreateSpace, 2016). Retired from National Geographic, Luce works as a creative writing instructor for Writopia Lab, and lives in Arlington, Va.
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