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We Won’t Be Blue Always

By Sam Ross @samrawss ·

I want to tell you natural facts. Sister
++++++Rosetta, full-throated
++++++++++++at Wilbraham Road. Calloused
fingers working her guitar like a loom
++++++shuttling the next number’s
++++++++++++caterwaul. Audience of passengers
waiting across from her. Sing us a song
++++++they said and she did
++++++++++++and pretty good for a woman.
Like a man shouting out the elements
++++++coloring a sky opened
++++++++++++by fireworks—Magnesium! (white)
Calcium! (orange)—I don’t mind
++++++spilling these beans. At the table
++++++++++++I’d pull the planchette to Yes, invisibly
insatiable. Even writing you from the disused
++++++station, I am hunting for
++++++++++++a likeness. The platforms once bore us
where we yearned to move next
++++++and quickly. The tracks have gone soft
++++++++++++with green and rot. Where to, Sister?

 

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Sam Ross

Sam Ross’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Bat City Review, Hunger Mountain, and Indiana Review, among other journals. He is co-editor of Circumference, a journal of poetry in translation, and has received fellowships from Columbia University, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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