WAITING FOR THE MAIL
This is the week
this might be the day
like I said
yesterday also–
maybe tomorrow
or the day after–
balancing on
anticipation’s tightrope–
I love the air up here–
freed of everything–
disappointment,
even joy.
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ANXIETY MORNING
You’re open-ended,
some necklace
that has lost its clasp.
You might be ploughing
across bogland, ground
precarious beneath you.
You’d be a great cypress
overlooking the Pacific cliffs if you could–
wind-sculpted by centuries, still held.
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Andrea Potos is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Two Emilys (Kelsay Books) and Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press). A new collection entitled The Presence of One Word is forthcoming later in 2025. Recent poems can be found in CALYX Journal, Presence, New York Times Book Review, Earth’s Daughters, and Poem. You can find her at andreapotos.com
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