Right Turn | Gerburg Garmann

 A flash of tree-skirt bounces off a barn wall
onto an old fence onto the svelte coat of a horse
finding itself in a meadow
then in a harness
                            en route to a moderate gallop cruising for daisies
and delphiniums too soon
             the fields run into highways 

Screeches shrieks

                           speed up or stay away
both fill its ears and lungs
with inquiries about unwelcome nostalgia or was it 
the shadow of a rainbow puddle  

                           ask where to visit on highways there are

no patches of grass no smells to limp on --

Speech steps in or was it a whinny meaning
why are you doing this meaning back off stay clear off

                a peace you can’t have 
not even in a poem or a space in a dream 
turn your flanks your back to wherever else

                    because nothing else fits you 
turn around then right take a right turn the images are 

        what they want to be and your family 
        wants to be named one by one.

Gerburg Garmann, from Germany, teaches German and French at the University of Indianapolis. Her scholarly publications appear in both German and French in international journals. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world. Gerburg Germann writes on Indian Review…

Gerburg Garmann, a native of Germany, teaches German and French at the University of Indianapolis. Her scholarly publications appear in both German and French in international journals. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world. For a more detailed profile : European Art Studio