You’ve come back again
looking for the weeping girl
with braids
you most likely
have a better phrase
or feel more prepared to deal with sorrow
she’s still gone
i put her in a bar
she is older and thinner
& more beautiful
& is a stripper
i can take you to see her
if you’d like
but i don’t think
she’ll want to speak with you
she’s grown colder
& cries less
but we can watch her dance
i can even arrange for something
more private
if that’s the kind of thing you’d be interested in
M.A. Vizsolyi's first book of poems is The Lamp with Wings: Love Sonnets, which was winner of the National Poetry Series. His poems are recently appearing in Ploughshares, Tuesday: An Art Project, Ninth Letter, and BOMB. He teaches ice hockey and ice skating lessons in Central Park, and lives in Brooklyn.
