Home and Abroad
Two Poems
Home and Abroad
Canto por una Salvadoreña
Blown free in this land without mangos,
You teach me, the gringo,
as you would teach a small child,
las palabras of your tongue… latino
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Hall Gardner / Two Poems
Monday, June 23, 2025
Erica Jong / Driving Me Away
Driving Me Away
by Erica Jong
Driving me away
is easier
than saying
goodbye-
kissing the air,
the last syllable
of truth
being always
two lips compressed
around
emptiness-
the emptiness
you dread
yet return to
as just punishment,
just reward.
Who
loved you
so relentlessly?
Who lost you
in that howling void
between infancy
and death?
It is punctuated
by the warm bodies
of women,
who hold you for a while
then run
down that echoing corridor
doing
as they are told.
is easier
than saying
goodbye-
kissing the air,
the last syllable
of truth
being always
two lips compressed
around
emptiness-
the emptiness
you dread
yet return to
as just punishment,
just reward.
Who
loved you
so relentlessly?
Who lost you
in that howling void
between infancy
and death?
It is punctuated
by the warm bodies
of women,
who hold you for a while
then run
down that echoing corridor
doing
as they are told.
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