Turbula
Volume II, Issue I Spring 2003

 
 

For Orion

Love is a war,
Geometric design And everything after it
Is just a big
Formality,
A consolation card,
A Deepest Sympathy note
With flowers,
If you're lucky.
And I knew,
When I climbed out of his car,
That
I'll call you
Was only a nicety set there between us
As a kindness from God,
Just a karmic reimbursement,
For another letdown by my own stupidity.

 
 
Anath Hartmann is an English major at Georgetown University. She lives on a cul de sac with her family and a dog that has a terrible habit of destroying things. She would like to write Salinger-esque novels after college.



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