Repair Your Mind ... "Tell all the Truth..." by EMILY DICKINSON Read More Poetry ... Truth by MARYANN HAZEN-STEARNS
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EMILY DICKINSON
"Tell all the Truth..."


Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -
Poetry documents rather than reports. The difference lay in its circulation: Reports tell of singular happenings - once read, we know the event; Documents formalize events and experience, demanding of readers to take care in understanding, to return at various times in our lives in order to be surprized, delighted, comforted, blinded. Each poem in issue 02.02 tells a truth. - PRSeditor.

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MARYANN HAZEN-STEARNS
Truth

The truth is I want to feel my teeth
buried to gums in your hand. I want
to smash anything glass, to feel
shards of porcelain angels zing
past my cheek, fracture into slivers
under crunching shoes. The truth is

I want to light your hair on fire,
watch your eyes howl in fright.
I want you to be so sorry,
so sorry, so sorry. The truth is

fierce as the whoosh of a baseball bat
with your knees in my line
of sight. I want to hear
the crunch of bone, the slick
wetness of raw-on-raw,
your trembling mouth
work the words no, no, no, no …

The truth is I'm afraid I've
tripped the switch fantastic
from don't-go-over-red-rover
to go-go-green-jeans and
you're the one I pick.
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MARYANN HAZEN-STEARNS has been published internationally in hundreds of magazines and anthologies in electronic and hard copy format and has also won many awards and contests. Mary enjoys work as a Poetry Editor, Poetry Competition Judge, CMT, wife and mom.

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