What Rough Beast | Poem for May 9, 2020

Susan Landgraf
After A Bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon

We lose weeks, oaths

Despair turns down an icy road to Hawaii

We win the keys to Casablanca

We see Hawaii and beautiful bodies
luminous grape-colored
possibilities

we discover
yes, we discover
nothing is forbidden

until the next morning.

Susan Landgraf is the author of What We Bury Changes the Ground (Tebot Bach, 2017), The Inspired Poet (Two Sylvias Press, 2019), and other books. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Margie, Nimrod, Calyx, and other journals. A former journalist and teacher she is the Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington.

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