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SORROW by Megan Pinto

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Megan Pinto
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Everything lost is returned again in sorrow.
Love lays to rest in a dark glen of sorrow. 

Handsome men study their faces in glass
temples I built, saying amen to sorrow.

My fingertips turn violet under cold water.
I read this as omen when I am in sorrow.

Tiger moth, peacock & devil’s butterfly 
stunned behind plastic by children of sorrow.

I loved him all summer, each bright night but
woke alone one day, in a cold den of sorrow.

Is there no repose for the romantic heart? 
Saffron ink bleeds from my pen of sorrow. 

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Megan Pinto
Megan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith, from Four Way Books (US) and the87press (UK). Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, and on The Slowdown podcast. She has received the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. (Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan)