THE ASKING PRICE
The wind is crueler
In these climes
Than in most other
Places
A hand over your
Heart
Tells me everything
About the weather
Hearing the floorboards
Creak
Is a sign of life
And of loss
When I have courage
I more easily see
The possibilities in
Love
LIKE YOU’LL NEVER LET ME GO
After all these years
Finally hearing
John Denver’s version of
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Made me cry
And there’s really nothing
To be done about it.
About Stephen Caratzas:
Stephen Caratzas is the author of It Will Be A Train (2004), The Incredulity Tour (2005) and Past Present Suture (Drifting Man Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in Terra Incognita, the tiny, Maintenant 5, Tattoosday, Lyre Lyre and other publications. When not writing he plays guitar in the lo-fi experimental band Gert Fröbe. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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