Meeting Death …
written by: Carrie Magness Radna
@cmrboxwoodstar1
Death is never a cowboy
hot upon the trail;
he carries too much weight,
not quick with a lasso,
slow & deliberate—
While coffee is brewing
he makes his mark,
his hiss is creepy,
his kiss overpowering.
Always a party-crasher,
he’ll have the last word,
the original Schadenfreuder
who’ll laugh at your demise.
I’ve heard
no one can escape him,
don’t even try.
The latest get-well package
won’t keep y’all alive & thin.
No,
Death’s not a cowboy,
but he’s man enough
(or, is Death a girl?)
No wonder
the kisses are so satisfying—
we are helpless
in Death’s passionate embrace.
But later is better than sooner.
I want to roam these parts
a little longer,
before it’s time to drop.
Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords.com, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal (Muse-Pie Press), Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review, Litterateur RW and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her new poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was published in February 2021. She won Honorable Mention Award twice, for “all trains are haunted” (Non-rhyming poetry: 2019) and “May (a Pantoum)” (Rhyming poetry: 2021) in Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.
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