Drawing by Susan C. Price
Sundered
By Eric Meub
Sundered
By Eric Meub
[Originally published on April 12, 2014]
High pressure system moving east: the road
continues, but the breakers bury it
beneath their backs, shrugging off a load
of splinters and a broken chariot.
The coast is vacant, but the beaches churn
with prints—a cast of thousands who just went
this way—only mine obliged to turn
away as waves erase a testament.
I left behind a fine split-level home
in Thebes for this? I’m stranded like the foam.
(Egyptians, heavy with armor, settle on
the ocean floor. One by one they sink,
great muscled limbs akimbo as they yawn
and gaze about in liquid dark as ink.)
| Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2020 by Susan C. Price & Eric Meub Eric Meub, architect, lives and practices in Pasadena, the adopted brother of the artist, Susan C. Price. They respect, in their different ways, the line. |
“[The poet & the artist] respect, in their different ways, the line.” Oh, they do, they do! Thank you both, over & over, for years & years!
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy a poem where the rhyme is not forced, but smooth, and the images draw together--nice job.
ReplyDelete“...rhyme is not forced, but smooth” – so true and so utterly amazing in Eric’s poems. How DOES he do that? What facility, what skill!
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