Listening Yesterday

This week’s poem commemorates another anniversary. It’s a collaborative poem (what Sid calls Jugalbandi) written by Sid Ghosh and Chris Martin to celebrate six years of working together.

Listening Yesterday


I am welding 
a sixth sense 
out of teal nails. 

Six feet under 
yester poems and 
tethered lives rise.

Ghost pipes unfurl 
in the shadow 
of a grizzly bear. 

Is that a bear? 
I thought it was 
my grizzly past. 

Listening, the bee
makes of the peony 
an echo chamber. 

He rises like 
sound, I no 
that poet.