Prepositions
Without.
apart
until
amidst
toward
against
like
on
along
around
in
beneath
between
behind
With.
for
beside
of
except
regarding
past
as
concerning
until
after
through
despite
beyond
Within.
Colors in the Sky
She’d look at a blue sky
and see auburn, a red evening,
she’d say aquamarine, a gray day
was somehow purple
I looked perplexed,
I’m certain of that
She seemed so convinced
in her blindness
I’ve always been lured
to those who try
or simply can
see things I do not
Her eyes sparkled white
as she picked a color
Maybe she lied, tried to find
my red buttons of desire
But maybe she knew
that from then on
when I see blue
I wonder if it’s true
Lingering Memories of Love
The lemon-scented soap in your bathroom. The
lemon-flavored tea in your kitchen. Always a biography, a
fiction, a romance on your nightstand. In the middle of your
street, a run and jump. A drunken kiss. Dropping a mixed
CD into the open arms of the book you were reading. The
first time I saw you. The first time I saw you again. The last
time I saw you, the back of you. How the nape of your neck
felt against my forehead. That angle we found together. The
flowery fluttering of your singing voice when you
whispered a song. A blurry sight of you, sometimes – in a
grocery aisle, pushing a stroller in the park – when I sleep.
The electric shock of recognizing a piece of you in someone
else. A voicemail, saved and remembered, on a phone in a
landfill. There are nights, like tonight, when I miss you.
Biography
Grant Burkhardt is a poet and short fiction writer, working on collections of both. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and spent a large portion of his adult life in the weird paradise that is the state of Ohio.