Index of Poets
Austin Alexis
Collin Barber
Yota Daniil
Gil Fagiani
Donna Gagnon
Rachel Green
Lois Marie Harrod
Ruth Holzer
Hank Kalet
Steadman Kondor
John Lambremont, Sr.
Gill McEvoy
Karen Neuberg
Joan Page-Durante
Mandy Pannett
John Joseph Petrolino III
Doug Pugh
Christine Redman-Waldeyer
David Romanda
Nancy Scott
Ivan Sun
Levi Wagenmaker
Lonnard Dean Watkins
Mark Arvid White
Wolfiewolfgang
Karen Neuberg
Years Now, She's Dead
Cold storage keeping my heart. Packed
in dry sobs, silent in plaid. Her tacit
instructions were hewn from a forest of trying.
Too late, my fondness for her imperfection
which she displayed descending out of here.
Her life into the chipping pile, decomposing.
What I miss most differs. Eyes when they
let me in. First note of her voice searching
me out. Her strength of will to keep going.
I want there to be a story to hold that
is less packed, less under the pile of clutter
I am fading into. Soon I will be flattened
into the same dust. My photo, too, among
those in the old box, some child lifting me out,
some child pointing to me, asking, Who's that?
Bio
Karen Neuberg 's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, and DIAGRAM. She holds an MFA from the New School and is associate editor of Inertia Magazine. Her chapbook, Detailed Still, was published by Poets Wear Prada Press in 2009.