Eureka Series: One Poem

Tom Snarsky

Today's poem is by Tom Snarsky

One Poem

How to salvage the catastrophe of learning

From all the other ones? This is not a new theory

Of authenticity, nothing so piebald as that—it’s more A way of coloring the plane

Divided into sections by the Romance

Of the Rose, the edges like petals that can Fall into step or a grocery bag

With equal indifference. I beg you, do not pretend To the throne of the most-streamed artist—

So many reps at the gym Go into that, so many refills

Of the fog machine of the self, which, listen: one Time I was so afraid

Of dying I bargained off some bad

Outcomes on god, if he would let me live, and now Like The Lover, Diversion, Mirth & Gladness

I have to watch it all come true

Copyright © 2025 Tom Snarsky All rights reserved
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Tom Snarsky wrote the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) and Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length poetry collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in summer 2025, and MOUNTEBANK is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in spring 2026. He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats.

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