Amorak Huey
I Have Been Trying to Make Sense of Love Again
after Vievee Francis
I thought to compare us to the weather
but rain never lasts.
I read somewhere
a cloud weighs millions of pounds —
no wonder, then,
the cloud eventually cannot hold.
We are always in such a hurry to find shelter.
I want to hold still
in the wet
long enough to take a picture —
a way to remember us that way
or a failsafe against the inevitable forgetting.
Perhaps I’ve missed the point.
Perhaps I was thinking of the moon.
I thought to compare us to the weather
but rain never lasts.
I read somewhere
a cloud weighs millions of pounds —
no wonder, then,
the cloud eventually cannot hold.
We are always in such a hurry to find shelter.
I want to hold still
in the wet
long enough to take a picture —
a way to remember us that way
or a failsafe against the inevitable forgetting.
Perhaps I’ve missed the point.
Perhaps I was thinking of the moon.
Biography
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Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021).
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