Gravity II & Collisions

By Eric Rozenman (August 2025)

Over the Town (Marc Chagall, 1914)

 

 

Gravity II
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Absent gravity
We would float right off
This good, green Earth.
Thank heaven
And nature
And nature’s God
(But I repeat myself)
For creating gravity
To hold our feet to the fire.
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Collisions
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Your head on my shoulder
Your breathing regular
You sleep untroubled
So untroubled I lie awake
Captivated by your warmth.
Outside I hear the silent neighborhood
Enveloped in stillness
To prolong this moment
I place my hand on your thigh
Surprisingly cool. Then it comes to me:
Mere hours from now
Under the risen sun
All sorts of people will collide.
Reluctantly I withdraw my hand
Ease out of bed
And start the percolator.
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Eric Rozenman is author of Jews Make the Best Demons: “Palestine” and the Jewish Question (2018, New English Review Press) and From Elvis to Biden, Eyewitness to the Unraveling; Co-Starring Nixon, Warhol, Clinton, The Supremes and Obama! (Academica Press). 

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