Leora Fridman

To The Recent Sea

I say lift me:

I am a motherfucking load.

The more people come to understand

the more
they love
my sister.

A grey
kind of family
this is:

flush like ancient
Rome.

Level with the
hyper kids.

Please.

Can you spell love
when love hops
gladly?

When love
moves?

Can you tell me
what an arcade
means?

No meaning
is patient
with me.

Each gift
I bring with me

floods
overnight.

 

Leora Fridman

Leora Fridman is the author of Precious Coast from H_ngm_n B_ _ks, On the architecture and Essential Nature from The New Megaphone, Obvious Metals from Projective Industries, and Eduardo Milán: Poems from Toad Press. With Kelin Loe, she edits Spoke Too Soon: A Journal of the Longer.