"Near Miss" by Eddy Roberts
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Post-War Aubade, BY AMANDA AUCHTER 2011
I look for you in this boulevard of so much destruction — shreds of newspapers, burned tires. It is May and I cannot find you here among the broken windows and petals dropped to gravel. Were you ever here — your face in the shuttered tobacco shops, of plumeria scarving the street, a handkerchief embroidered with sorrow? Was there ever a night we did not miss the other, did not hold our faces to the moon and listen to the mortar shells bombing this city where we had our last glass of wine, where you plucked gardenia from the bush at our favorite cafe and you kissed me between cars? Where you watched me sit on the hotel bed, pull thread from my sewing kit, stitch your name into my skin. I stood naked at the window and watched our city burn. For weeks I climbed into bed beside you. I heard the sirens, but not once did I ever take cover. |
Amanda Auchter is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of the 2013 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry and the 2012 Perugia Press Book Award, and The Glass Crib, winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry. Auchter's recent work appears in The Huffington Post and CNN. She lives in Houston, TX.
Eddy Roberts is a graphic designer and artist with an interest in mass media, persuasive language, and mythology. His work explores the overlaps and contrasts between these subjects and the problematic nature of contemporary story-telling, particularly as it relates to digital communications. Roberts has experience working with various creative agencies in Texas and Florida. He’s also taught Graphic Communication at The University of Houston and at Ringling College of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Houston, TX.
Eddy Roberts is a graphic designer and artist with an interest in mass media, persuasive language, and mythology. His work explores the overlaps and contrasts between these subjects and the problematic nature of contemporary story-telling, particularly as it relates to digital communications. Roberts has experience working with various creative agencies in Texas and Florida. He’s also taught Graphic Communication at The University of Houston and at Ringling College of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Houston, TX.