Renan Ozturk, After Watching Meru
“ Renan Ozturk, After Watching Meru”
When a tear trespasses
into the conversation, you
wish for it to freeze. Ice
stands firm, can be chiseled,
conquered. But water
drops where it wants,
flows where it will,
and even small waterfalls risk
slippery hands, unsteady feet.
You want a cold that crystalizes
on mountain slopes,
until the land is frosty
and still like an alpine corpse,
and you shall have it.
Matthew J. Andrews
11/19/2020
Matthew J. Andrews is a private investigator and writer who lives in Modesto, California. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Orange Blossom Review, Funicular Magazine, The Inflectionist Review, Red Rock Review, Sojourners, Amethyst Review, Kissing Dynamite, and Deep Wild Journal, among others. He can be contacted at matthewjandrews.com.
