Two Poems and a Poem: Ritual One, Day 10

 Two *Three Poems:

“How to Get a Divorce” by Barbara Kingsolver

“What We Didn’t Know About Cuba” by Richard Blanco

“Matters of the Sea” by Richard Blanco

A Poem:

Same Sky

by ljkemp

Sacrifice for love is a cozy hearth.

Home is not where the heart is,

not now as our loved ones are strewn

about the state, the country, 

down the street and out of reach

longing for touch-a hug, cheek-to-cheek

a meeting of the eyes, face to face,

a warm hand gently placed one over

another, sitting beside each other. 

Listen again to the echo of your sister in the 

kitchen scrambling eggs, your mother 

leaning into her book, turning the pages.

Outside we walk under the same sky

satisfied but not, with a phone to the ear,

gazing into the lucid blues of our shared horizon

breathe together, heal together so that  

we may be together again one day, soon.

Italics:

The first italicized line is from the Kingsolver poem, the additional italics are from the Blanco poem.

*Edit January 15, 2021: I realized while returning to the Blanco book the next day, I had actually read two of his poems unintentionally. I referred back to what I thought was the original poem to grab a line I couldn’t remember, and it seems I was drawn into the next poem because I actually pulled lines from the next one. This entry is actually 3 poems and a poem. Lines from Blanco’s poem “Matters of the Sea” also appear in the “one poem.”