THE ARGONNE HOTEL PRESS CHAPBOOK SERIES


SIT DOWN, SAYS LOVE
Poems by GRACE CAVALIERI

The Tear Upon The Plate • Ancestors • Nettie And Angelo • It May Do Us No Harm To Introduce The Characters • Language Lesson • To His House • Replacing Loss • Trenton Transit • Angelo • Judy And Me • Summer In The Convent • You Could Not Say She Was Of This Earth • Good Golly, Miss Molly • His Life, A Thin White Paper Which Didn’t Quite Cover His Lifetime • HIV • For Reuben Jackson • The Death of Bill Evans • I Want A Poem I Can Grow Old In • The Famous Poet Arrives • The Port From Which I Set Out Was, I Think, The Essential Loneliness Of My Life • The Day I Tried To Commit Suicide • Good Luck Makes You Brave • You Must Sit Down, Says Love, And Taste My Meat: So I Did Sit And Eat • Through The Crowded Church • Tarot Card IX. The Hermit • Tarot Card 0. The Fool • Tarot Card III. The Empress • Tarot Card VI. The Lovers • Florida

$7.00 US • 44 pages

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The Tear Upon The Plate

As out of a long sleep, not knowing
time or space, having feet but
not walking, having hands but
nothing to hold. Eyes and ears
neither see nor hear – waiting
without desire, without wish
the baby is born.

And who will bring us but
ourselves alone – untangled
with light. What is this place
neither here nor there, something in
between, a strange state of being.
Who can blame these people
who held me in their arms? They
too came from clay seized with
nothing but seeds to begin themselves
ignorant of their destiny – The
man is confused with me – Wishing
I were a son, he holds me
(wet and wild) for awhile, then puts me down.