Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.
No Vacancy
by David Colodney
As vacant as beach hotels in rainy season,
I stand facing you, your stormy eyes dark,
slow dancing in circles under milky clouds.
Like jalousie windows in those lonely rooms
that don’t crank closed completely,
I’m a flashing neon sign, a skeleton
under an opaque sky, exposed by each word
before we talk the same small talk we always talk.
When you say more words I don’t want to hear
I kiss you as the moonlight turns searchlight
zeroing in on two raw x-rays. On the phone
vibrating in your purse, the phone you never
let me see, is your husband calling,
asking when you’ll be home.
Originally appeared in rust + moth.
David Colodney is a poet living in Boynton Beach, Florida. He is the author of the chapbook, Mimeograph, and his poetry has appeared in multiple journals. A three-time Pushcart nominee, David has written for The Miami Herald and The Tampa Tribune and currently serves as an associate editor of South Florida Poetry Journal.
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