Adam D. Weeks
Short Essay Beginning and Ending in Chavatel
This murmur, this how-much, this that—
this morning The Telegraph told me
why men are afraid of being intimate
without me even asking. I’ve learned
so many ways to see myself, no wonder
I’m always looking. Isn’t it something
to see shapes in the clouds? Down here
beneath floating boats and sprinting
horses, beneath the birth mark just below
your left knee—yes, we the inventive.
We the collective. We the distracted driver
staring at the crash. We are always
all seeing something. Yesterday I saw
news about a new shooting and today
I couldn’t tell you in which state
it happened. What do we do with all this
uncertainty beneath us but leave it,
faulting? This world’s so loud, all I have
left is to look to the sky and say blue,
I want so badly to write about anything else.
Adam D. Weeks is an undergraduate student at Salisbury University, the social media manager for The Shore and a poetry reader for Quarterly West. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has poetry published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Sugar House Review, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review and elsewhere.
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This murmur, this how-much, this that—
this morning The Telegraph told me
why men are afraid of being intimate
without me even asking. I’ve learned
so many ways to see myself, no wonder
I’m always looking. Isn’t it something
to see shapes in the clouds? Down here
beneath floating boats and sprinting
horses, beneath the birth mark just below
your left knee—yes, we the inventive.
We the collective. We the distracted driver
staring at the crash. We are always
all seeing something. Yesterday I saw
news about a new shooting and today
I couldn’t tell you in which state
it happened. What do we do with all this
uncertainty beneath us but leave it,
faulting? This world’s so loud, all I have
left is to look to the sky and say blue,
I want so badly to write about anything else.
Adam D. Weeks is an undergraduate student at Salisbury University, the social media manager for The Shore and a poetry reader for Quarterly West. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has poetry published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Sugar House Review, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review and elsewhere.
Return to July 2021 Edition