CIRCUS ARTS
By Adam Webster
[Trapeze]
On this, the occasion
of the dissolution
of my marriage
which I suspect,
on some level,
was your marriage too,
it has occurred to me
that letting go is easier
than hanging on
but falling
was only bearable
hand in hand
with you.
[By contrast]
On the rare occasion
I think of your heart
not as a muscle
but an actual thing we shared
and our time together
not for what it was
nor could have been
but solely of what it wasn't
(and inferring the rest) -
I'm left with a definition by subtraction:
a careless walk in a brittle forest.
[necessary diversions]
I zagged left
when I should have zagged
left.
It was the last best thing I did.
[Trajectory]
From the hole in your head
to the hole in my heart
to the rock in my gut
to the lead in my feet
and back again.
Adam Webster is a writer of fictions (poet, playwright, short stories) and a visual artist in the graduate program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on visual poetry, text-based sculpture and short fiction. Also a theatre artist, Adam has produced over 100 plays; written adaptations of "Lysistrata," "Hippolytus," Life Is a Dream," and Stephen Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"; more than a dozen short plays that have been produced; and three fuller-length solo pieces, which he has performed.
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