Melissa Adamo
Music Therapy
I never knew the point of a treble clef,
but thought it was beautiful all the same.
Just as he didn't understand why he left,
but somehow knew we couldn't be sustained.
His borrowed etudes valley through my mind
between dark mountains of memory.
I had felt his changes over time,
diminished notes wearing him quietly.
Our tone was ambiguous, our pace, quick.
Yet before our end, he would pretend to play
my acoustic-guitar curves with no pick,
strike major chords to hold on and delay.
I try to learn the scores of our small bed,
hoping he finds rest from songs in his head.
Petal from Bud
Sound waves collapse bubbles underwater,
producing new light.
Synapses and galaxies mimic each other,
playing with time and height.
Humans wait to be touched by lovers,
to feel alive and seem right
or pay gypsies for tea leaves
to separate comfort from fright.
Microscopes and slides reveal
what runs through animal blood.
Flowers are plucked and sealed,
so we can know petal from bud.
Men and women press palms
together for hope out of the mud,
or dance and delve in wines
to understand the flood.
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| AUTHOR BIO |
| Melissa Adamo received her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers-Newark
University. She is a staff writer for English Kills Review, and her
other poems, essays, and book reviews have previously appeared in
journals such as Per Contra, Plath Profiles, and The Rumpus. Teaching
various courses at Rutgers, Montclair State, and Ramapo College while
working as a writing tutor at Brookdale Community College, she gets to
enjoy the best the NJ parkway has to offer due to her love of language
and try-hard students. Follow her word-thoughts on writing, feminism,
and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Twitter @adamopoeting. |
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| POETRY CONTRIBUTORS |
 Melissa Adamo
Sylvia Ashby
Jane Blanchard
Patricia Bollin
Cathleen Calbert
Maryann Corbett
Eleanor Cory
Casey FitzSimons
Nicole Caruso Garcia
Claudia Gary
Edith Goldenhar
A. J. Huffman
Cambria Jones
Tamam Kahn
Jean L. Kreiling
Fiona Marshall
Holly Painter
Zara Raab
Andrea Witzke Slot
Linda Stern
Anne-Marie Thompson
Doris Watts
Holly Woodward
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