Poem-A-Day: If You Must Hide Yourself From Love by Christopher Salerno

March 24, 2014 If You Must Hide Yourself From Love by Christopher Salerno      It is important to face the rear of the train as it leaves the republic. Not that all   departing is yearning. First love is a factory. We sleep in a bed that had once   been a tree. Nothing is forgot. Yet facts, over time, lose their charm,   warned a dying Plato. You have to isolate the lies you love. Are we any less   photorealistic? I spot in someone's Face- book sonogram a tiny dictum   full of syllogisms. One says: all kisses come down to a hole in the skull,   toothpaste and gin; therefore your eyes are bull, your mouth is a goal.      Copyright © 2014 by Christopher Salerno. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "Love hurts, warned The Everly Brothers. Especially when we let passion trump reason. After all, as Plato suggests, there are any number of available 'beds in nature' to make one's love life more complicated. As humans we struggle with the difference between physical, emotional, and intellectual love. Sometimes we simply need to bail out of the whole enterprise, and sometimes, after a great pain, we may need to censor it from our lives. To see sentimentality for what it is. Only then do we come back (to love) even stronger."   --Christopher Salerno Most Recent Book by Salerno     ATM (Georgetown Review Press, 2014)            Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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.     Christopher Salerno is the author of ATM (Georgetown Review Press, 2014). He is currently an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. Related Poems Holding Pattern by Timothy Liu Credo by Matthew Rohrer Fons by Pura López-Colomé __________________________ 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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