Karen Neuberg

AMIDST ONGOING HELLOS AND GOODBYES

Continuing, I don’t always notice what isn’t
or I continue in what isn’t, noticing
when parsed, it fluxes and perplexes,
free falls from my stay

and into all that belongs
to the curve of time (s)weeping its way away—
what was that is
soldered to my breastbone—

and heard in recurrent songs of birds, flowers, trees
the answer received before the question.

Karen Neuberg’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Glassworks, Gone Lawn, Misfit, Unbroken, and Verse Daily. She is the author of PURSUIT (Kelsay Books, 2019) and the chapbook the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press, 2018). She holds an MFA from The New School and is associate editor of the online journal First Literary Review East. She lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.