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Discovering the Last Push of the Soul

BY ALEXANDRE FERRERE.


Many years old, many odd years;
future as tall as a lighthouse
& Time running after it, mad as a dog.

(“caution
                    steep
                                 steps”
                                               reads a sign)

                                               ​a quick dance around
                                                              mystic glens,

                                 a last dance
                                               ​to trembling violins
                                               ​&
                                               ​violent trombones,
                                               ​                              soon
                    ​covered by the foghorn at night.

                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​“He that had no grave had
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​the heavens still over him”
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​​wrote More,
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​but more
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​a skeleton is its own
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​home
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​before the face
                                               ​                                               ​                                               ​​of faith.

Btw death
  & death stands the pier
under which flooded
                    ​possibilities wait
for the last push of the soul, wait
for the sole rush of the past, wait,
wait, wait.

Alexandre Ferrere is 28 and lives in France. After a Master's degree in Library Sciences and a Master's degree in English Literature, he is now working on a PhD. in American poetry.  His essays and poems appeared or are forthcoming in Beatdom, Empty Mirror Rust+Moth, Lumin Journal, Riggwelter Press, Porridge Magazine, Barren Magazine, armarolla, Lucent Dreaming and elsewhere. You can follow him on Twitter @bluesfolkjazz.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Gabby Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews