"What I’ll Do Instead" by Karen Neuberg
Poetry
What I’ll Do Instead
I’ll drift.
Carry fire.
Carry rain.
Carve the sizzle so the corners fit.
And I’ll dream as I drift.
Full of punch and pretty. Wind pushing
as I song
what I didn’t know
I intended.
And this is the way I’ll go
without being gone.
Karen Neuberg is the author of the full-length poetry collection, PURSUIT (Kelsay Press), and three chapbooks including “the elephants are asking” (Glass Lyre). Her poetry and collages have appeared in numerous online and print journals and anthologies including 805, Gyroscope, Inflectionist Review, Mackinaw, Nixes Mate, and Unbroken. She holds an MFA from The New School and lives in Brooklyn, NY.