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The Pedestal Magazine -Alain Sherter - Strange Teacher
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Alain Sherter - Strange Teacher |
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I.
Your smile settles in odd places
my solferino shirt green bottles
it fairly rappels down your face
pausing like a lame man
contemplating stairs
If I lack courage where does that leave us?
in despair or Des Moines
it’s true I lack tomorrow’s guts
as the probe does a deft passado-touché
my doctor’s gentle hands
a tailor’s hands forever measuring
The distance between friends
long parted
II.
Poor hips
pinned to their saddle
out of kilter like motherhood itself
I will dress them myself
laying out new clothes like
Tulip leaves pressed
in the pages of a book
cold truth stranded
in your body for
the last time
unspeakable
Still your hand still it
for God’s sake
III.
Winter pears ripen in a bowl
I’ll peel one for you
note the way I slowly
run the blade along the skin
toward my thumb
As I skin these lines
to show the lowering fruit
of your lone complaint
that you were unloved
that even this was
an evasion
Lost in trees
and memory
Alain Sherter is a journalist living and working in New York City. This is his first published piece.
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