Karen Neuberg

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Can I Even Write About You Anymore?

So much since then. Until it seems
the road away begins. To untangle. To reconfigure.
Into switchbacks. Carried in a zipper pouch.
Worn on a lanyard around the neck. Millstone
or albatross. Periods of inaction. While deciding.
Next steps. Then crossroads. Which extend
into realms. To enter. Sometimes with that little
dance—jig or whirl. Then I notice.
The long seconds
have secretly,
finally,
accumulated.
As if.
Suddenly.

Karen Neuberg's poems and collages appear in numerous journals including 805, Canary, Epigraph Magazine, and Verse Daily. Her latest chapbook is "the elephants are asking" (Glass Lyre Press, 2018). She lives in Brooklyn, NY