Richard Weaver
A Kitchen sink beckons
for a woman's earnest love,
calls her to consummate
her own porcelain feelings,
and, thus, make him
a real man among menschen.
A woman declines
his kind offer, saying
she has no need for ceramics
or stainless steel in her life.
Or ceremonies holy.
A woman of pure water,
she gathers her cleanliness about her,
and keeps it entirely, confident
what she forgets never was,
and could never have been.
Will never be. If ever was.
Bio
The author hopes to one day once again volunteer with the Maryland Book Bank, CityLit, the Baltimore Book Festival, and return as house writer at the James Joyce Pub. His other pubs: North American Review, crazyhorse, New England Review, Southern Quarterly, Loch Raven Review, & Poetry. He's the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992), and provided the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars (2005), performed 4 times to date. Recently, his 150th prose poem, was published. He was one of the founders and PE of the Black Warrior Review.