what was said and unsaid
John C. Goodman
elide the elision
what was lost remains lost
even if found
a permanent hollow in space-time
all is hidden in time
the germ in the seed
the echo in the wind
I don’t need a picture; a memory is enough
remembering ambiguous blurs
wriggling like embryos
hatching into malformed arpeggios
stinging spines and bad tempers
the past is an evil land
of wrongs and unfortunate decisions
of hurts and mistreatments
of misunderstandings
I should have said…
Canadian writer and Pushcart Prize nominee John C. Goodman has published four collections of poetry as well as a novella and a novel (which was short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award). He is the past editor of ditch, an online magazine of experimental poetry, and is the current editor of Trainwreck Press.