Agonies & Bliss
Matt Nagin

 
alone with the agonies rising
up from a sorrowful gut
and splashed across a
tempestuous sea of memories
that make me feel 
half of what I once was.
wrap yourself
around my fear
and sadness
hunt
my courage with
magic knives.
limericks break
nascent rainbow parameters--
hop into spiral
galaxies because the doors
stop when the
flags fall.
the children survived
love will not redeem
but the bliss carries on
into the imperfect storm.



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About the Author:  Matt Nagin is a writer, educator, actor, filmmaker and standup comedian. His poetry has been published in Antigonish Review, Dash Literary Journal, The Charles Carter, Grain Magazine and Arsenic Lobster, among other markets. His first poetry collection, "Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight," was released in 2017, and has obtained very strong reader reviews on Amazon. You can learn more about Matt here 

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