Name: The Way I Love Is Seaglass Strange
Duration: P00H01M36S
Description: On loving too soon.

The Way I Love Is Seaglass Strange

from Seaglass Strange by Red O'Hare

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On loving too soon.

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In Portland, the daffodils
jawed yellow in January
I found their broken necks
in February snow.

City streetlight starfall
broke your second story window.
Oil slick rainbow rubble
colored your swayback bed.

I fell for you like
blossoms in false spring.
I mistook instinct for faith.
I confused hope for love.

It’s taken til now to stomach
that the way you love
is the American Midwest
on first family vacations.

McDonalds myopic
Denny’s dependable,
Holiday Inn homogenous.
Kroger convenient

But the way I love
is seaglass strange.
I don’t miss people, I mutter
their names when I am lonely.

Tongue them bloody
til the parts
that chip my teeth
wear smooth and round.

I have stuttered your name
into broken hands and mirrors.
I have worn this memory
a soft and milky blue

I told you once I loved like art
Some works in progress,
some resplendent on shelves.
but all kept safe and snug.

I told you once
you loved like trees
but you cannot love the fruit
if you do not love the seed.

I loved you like
flowers will love a sun
that shone too warm,
Too bright, too soon.

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from Seaglass Strange, released June 7, 2019

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Red O'Hare Portland, Oregon

Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet from Oakland, California where she featured twice with Bay Area Generations. A product of Presbyterian missionaries from the Belgian Congo and Eastern European carny folk, Red has been performing poetry for 20 years. She works in a bakery and is compiling a list of people who want her dead. ... more