Poem-A-Day: I Want the Certainty of Love in Another Language by Christie Ann Reynolds

January 27, 2014 I Want the Certainty of Love in Another Language by Christie Ann Reynolds   You walked in like the light From every sun that rose This year had exploded Symmetrically from your eyes I was uncertain--no I was certain I wanted your eyes to shoot Laser beams straight through me It was certain we were soon to be Bound by something mythological It was certain that when you moved The hair away from my mouth A locust in your eyes Moved farther afield It was uncertain if one day We would be saying I will not love you The way I love you presently It was certain we spoke The danger language of deer Moving only when moving Our velvet bodies in fear     Copyright © 2014 by Christie Ann Reynolds. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "I suppose the heart of this poem is about how love can be lost to a difference in 'language.' I was thinking about how much certainty uncertainty possesses--the same way light needs darkness to make forms. I was thinking about the velvet deer from a past poem that continues to reappear in new poems like a ghost." --Christie Ann Reynolds   Most Recent Book by Reynolds Revenge for Revenge (Coconut Books, 2012)          Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Christie Ann Reynolds is the author of Revenge for Revenge (Coconut Books, 2012), as well as three chapbooks. She teaches science and writing at Metropolitan Montessori School in New York, New York.   Related Poems The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem by Amy Uyematsu The Ear is an Organ Made for Love by E. Ethelbert Miller  It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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