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AV Poetry: Private Titanics

Private Titanics

There’s so much down there.

Fathoms of cellars and stairways

and great halls that lead nowhere.

So many days, mornings, thoughts passing,

the girl in fifth grade getting away,

the first time joy rocketed from the radio,

Bach on a winter day.

Ghosts from Friday fright nights

live there too, phantioms of operas,

things scuttling in the old sewers of Paris,

broken glass, rotting pom-poms,

spiders on cotton candy webs,

the week you never slept.

Old and damp, or dusty, foul,

we all have our cellars. No one wants to

go down there, much less clean the mess.

Funny, how we manage at all some days,

our friends, lovers, the guy next door,

floating around all these icebergs,

harder, sharper, steeper than our Titanics.

anthony d. hughes



How to get your poetry in Artvoice

In the Margins occasionally features poetry by local writers. The poetry editor is Florine Melnyk. Submissions of no more than five poems and no more than 10 pages in length can be sent by e-mail to florine@starcherone.com or by mail to Florine Melnyk, Poetry Editor, Artvoice, 810 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14202 Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope to have manuscripts returned.