Poem Renaissance – Suzanne Edison

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 20^th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.

in/tract/able :: what cannot be touched
by Suzanne Edison

a rampage, ramped up for the ages—eras—this area. palestinian. israeli. arab. jew. who
is a t/errorist. a knot of centuries seemingly seamed

and un-knottable. seized under fire—the mind sees fire, embedded, embered in the blood-soaked. then cease fire—

the trade is hostages :: host/ages, children taken/aching—children. what haven’t others, we, done—Oh, father

who taught me God was One, only One—theirs One, too—which One sends
the rocketsbulletsbombs/bastic—caustic whole :: unholy cause

whose side geno /cide—or is it cleansing—clan/singing—can we unclench, unlense the eyes, unlimb the wings, the arm/ors of hate

when justice—just/is—unjust. what mots juste :: never again never holds n/
ever gains—we keep f/licking out the tongues of war, the tong-throngs of weapons

with our means :: what means our :: what means us

Published in Judith Magazine—January 2025

Suzanne Edison’s book, Since the House Is Burning, was published in 2022 by MoonPath Press. Her chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018. Poetry can be found in: The Missouri Review, Solstice Literary Journal, Quartet Journal; Gyroscope Review; The Nature of Our Times; Whale Road Review; Lily Poetry Review; MER and elsewhere. She is the Mental Health Coordinator at the Cure JM Foundation. She lives in Seattle, is an avid gardener, and cloud-watcher. www.seedison.com

Don’t forget to read the Spring 2025 Issue, available now, online and in print

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