Author Archives: marthakelchpoetry

(8 february 1999 *** 12:15 am) 8 april 1999/ 22 nisan 5759 *** 11:25 pm . she leapt into my heart  and settled in to stay . until it came to us to part the one that got away . another fish has tangled caught up in my net . one I’ve barely tasted easierContinue reading “go fish”

21 September 1998 *** 9:43 pm . shofar as i can hear aloud . shofar as i can see through a crowd . shofar as i can tell a song . shofar as i can smell a wrong . shofar as i can taste it honey . shofar as I can hear it funny .Continue reading “shofar so good”

2 october 1998 *** 9:05pm . it’s a beautiful night stars shine through clouds back-lit by moonlight i’m thinking of you . what a perfect evening to give a first kiss held close in a shadow on a night like this . best chance — you missed it . best chance– slept through . perfectContinue reading “first kiss (on a night like this)”

12.04.04/23 nisan 5764  ***  17:02 . i was resting my head on a cold afternoon having blocked out the day that would lighten the room but the sleep wouldn’t come and the rest wasn’t true ’cause my thoughts all went running right back over you . and the sky was hung~over, dark~clouds boding rain havingContinue reading “butterflies on the ceiling”

19 may 1998 *** 12:53 am . freely, on the sly from herself, given . freely, in spite of herself, given . freely, no thought for herself, given . i want to stand naked under water with her, . watch her wash herself, touch herself, all over. . my hands promised, beyond tempting, to noContinue reading “given”

23.7.00 *** 11:33 . there are those who never live to see their brush with immortality who sadly pass into the night not having whet an appetite . when what they felt and what they thought was just as grand and twice as wrought as anything i ever said (oh–how much more stay in myContinue reading “posthumous”

03.04.04/12 nisan 5764  *** 01:30 . did you tear~up the letters and throw~out the stuff deciding you were through with me that you had had enough did you burn every picture abandon each frame to the risk of rememb’ring a face and a name . did it tear~up inside you the heart that you hideContinue reading “did you”

25.07.04/7 av 5764  ***  02:57 . i can see me hanging there upon the highest limb dancing like a jitter~bug dancing in the air i can see the struggling the fight with destiny un~conscious will to keep on livin’ beat in~side of me . i can see me hanging there between the lake and skyContinue reading “hanging (a metaphor in metamorphosis)”

4 tishri 5760/14 september 1999 *** 12:19 am . i know that she never could love me i know that I’m still not her type . i know there’s no heaven above me~ see how the fields are ripe . i know that she doesn’t remember me falling for all of her hype . iContinue reading “see how the fields”

28 april 1999// 12 oyar 5759 *** 12:25 pm like a bird in your hand . sipping brandy or wine . held aloft from the land . on a dandy  back nine . two birds  in a bush . of a similar genus . a pull and a push . un~familiar penis . like aContinue reading “back nine”