MIPOESIAS VOLUME 24, ISSUE 1 ~ JANUARY 2011 from Mother Earth Adam Fieled #2


Listen, now that I’ve got you alone I need to break a few things to you. You think this guy is going to make a responsible father? Look how shiny these shoes are, and you know why? I took the time to have them shined. This guy has hands that shake, eyes that dart, lips that curl, and it’s all because he can’t take care of himself. You think having two kids at once is going to be glamorous? Do you really have that much of a martyr complex? Please, here’s another Diet Coke, I know this isn’t fun for you, especially because you have to cab it back to the subway. I’ll pay.


#3


Look: the boy-child sleeps. Of course, he left a cigarette in the ash-tray; sudden death’s here. I take his sleeping hands, place them on my belly, just so he knows, at least somewhere in the dense green fog of his existence, what’s about to happen. My breasts are watermelons, it’s sick. His hands are limp. I’m damp: I still want this man (if he can be called a man, if that bald pate signifies). To think, that all he’s swallowed in this are lies. Of course, tiny streaks of spit mar his pillow. I bought them of course, and their blueness works. He’ll leave me lit too, and wanting a real father. Yet, do I take the blame for this hideousness? Yes. Two babes are sleeping while I get undressed.


Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia. His latest book is "Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled." His poems and essays have appeared in Jacket, PennSound, Poetry Salzburg Review, and in the & Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also has an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University, where he is completing his PhD.


www.mipoesias.com


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