Laura Chalar
6.15 a.m.
In rooms still touched by your presence
I move as in water, yet pause to take in
those tokens of you, empty cup,
crumpled pillow. The grey dawn’s jetsam,
their dream-washed silence tells about us,
our seafaring love, the small wreckage of leaving.
I slide into bed, where dark and sleep coil.
And a bleary mind somehow comes up with
grieve not, dear love, although we often part –
I try saying them, old words for the old ache.
I move as in water, yet pause to take in
those tokens of you, empty cup,
crumpled pillow. The grey dawn’s jetsam,
their dream-washed silence tells about us,
our seafaring love, the small wreckage of leaving.
I slide into bed, where dark and sleep coil.
And a bleary mind somehow comes up with
grieve not, dear love, although we often part –
I try saying them, old words for the old ache.
Laura Chalar is a Uruguayan lawyer, poet and short story writer. She edits the poetry section of the literary magazine “Letra Nueva”. Her first book of poetry will be published this year in Montevideo.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The