FOUR POEMS

MATTHEW LIPPMAN

Next to the Tomatoes and Plums Weeping I’ve always been an easy crier (let it come, not ashamed, never held it back in joy or grief, and wherever … subway, teaching, grocery store, (oh the desolate grocery store during the height of Covid) but now, the welling up: that’s daily now. —Lia Purpura Lia. I did it again, damn, I cried in the car.It was this morning. It was in front of the ducks and the grass and the Teslasand the woman in the Tesla saw me and smiledand the sky that wanted to shake my hand but it was too busy being the skyand I was not embarrassed.I wept and I thought of you, next to the tomatoes and the plums, weeping,next to the asparagus and the toilet paper and the…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2024

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