“Manuscript of a Long-Forgotten Poet,” by Chloe Martinez (Poetry ’09)

Chloe Martinez, a 2009 poetry graduate, recently had several poems featured by Negative Capability Press. Read an excerpt of “Manuscript of a Long-Forgotten Poet” below:

Manuscript of a Long-Forgotten Poet
For Jamel

For days we may not speak more than
a few words to anyone but each other.
We leave the hotel in the cool morning and
come back sweaty, drained of energy, to stand

before a huge cage of parakeets, watching them
quickstep sideways along their long stick-perches.
Courting? Fighting? When we wash our hands
we turn the water brown as a flooded field.

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://www.negativecapabilitypress.org/blog/2020/6/25/featured-poet-chloe-martinez