Poetic excerpt, written by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, from “Coping Method,” created as part of a larger piece on the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S. government’s closing of borders. Performed in various iterations at The Winter Poetry Festival, an Evening of Rare Duos, and other venues.
…Once, I fastened every lightning
streak to your lips
hungry hungry. Who said the roof
of the universe begins with the
lover's tongue (maybe it was me about you) and once light shot
from us like a beacon from a stormy sea somewhere
north, Alaska or Newfoundland
somewhere colder than that
winter I threw my dog from the
second story into 40 inches of snow
to pee our love was like that
a rise up from the snow our past hushing desire and
arc into light…