by Christina M. Rau
in solidarity with Maureen N. McLane’s “Terrible Things Are Happening In Russian Novels”
Everything gold stays put
up or shut up in the tiny safe-
way sale on tomatoes this week
end when plans for planting roses
are red as the Russian novels where
terrible things are happening where
everything is coming up empty
handed me a check for five
up high down low too slow
as molasses in the house of
mirth seven gables stone and light
usher the rising sun the spirits
blues. Margaritas all around.
Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and most recently in the journals Queen Mob’s Tea House and Meniscus. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Visit her at www.christinamrau.com
