<div class="line">What if a new year dawns &amp; I don’t change?</div>
<div class="line">Each January finds me as I was:</div>
<div class="line">still moribund, still sensitive &amp; strange.</div>
<div class="line">I buy blank planners, scrub my house because</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">I crave the start a bright new year can bring—</div>
<div class="line">but as I drain my last flute of champagne</div>
<div class="line">I wait for change, &amp; don’t feel anything.</div>
<div class="line">Whatever I have been, I shall remain.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Somehow, the magic misses me. My friends</div>
<div class="line">sign up for 5ks, vow to watch their weight,</div>
<div class="line">or learn to knit. I’ll drink &amp; overspend,</div>
<div class="line">I’ll scarf the untouched French fries off their plate.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The world will count from ten, then kiss &amp; cheer.</div>
<div class="line">It’s me again. It’s yet another year.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/ReidAgain.mp3"></audio></figure>

Single Mom Finally in Repose

Poets Respond

After Rain

It’s Me Again

<div class="line">Turn the photo of your mother in its frame</div>
<div class="line">so she can’t <em>tsk </em>her tongue against her teeth:</div>
<div class="line">the cold eyes will follow you just the same—</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">a trick of perspective like Mona Lisa’s gaze.</div>
<div class="line">Covering her mouth can’t stifle its critiques</div>
<div class="line">when you turn your mother’s photo in its frame.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Drape her face in silk, in rich brocade,</div>
<div class="line">or swaddle her in lambswool. Under the sheath,</div>
<div class="line">her cold eyes will follow you just the same.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Crown her in rubies as the Queen of Shame,</div>
<div class="line">who made you lie in it like piss-drenched sheets</div>
<div class="line">(and no use telling her that you were framed).</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">You look nothing like her. She stakes no claim</div>
<div class="line">on your nose or brow, your how-may-I-help-you cheeks—</div>
<div class="line">or do her cold eyes follow you just the same?</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">So hang her image in the Hall of Fame</div>
<div class="line">where you can still gawk up from underneath.</div>
<div class="line">It’s no use turning the photo in its frame—</div>
<div class="line">her cold eyes will follow you just the same.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KaneReidRedux.mp3"></audio></figure>

Hart Crane in the Islands

Summer Job

The Double Image Redux

<p class="author"><i style="font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">I approach every poem I write</i></p>
<p class="epil"><i>as if I’m going to save a life.<br />—Aaron Abeyta</i></p>
<div class="line">It was no small feat to locate a phone book—but I did,</div>
<div class="line">and Angela Winston from Oshkosh, Wisconsin,</div>
<div class="line">I have chosen your name at random and I have come</div>
<div class="line">to save your life. I recognize that it is a huge swing</div>
<div class="line">on my part to assume that you need saving—but then</div>
<div class="line">we are all drowning these days, are we not? Don’t you wake up</div>
<div class="line">feeling you’ve reached your limit, that the worst must be past,</div>
<div class="line">only to discover you’re at the top of a spiritual Guggenheim,</div>
<div class="line">a cool, white spiral of descent still awaiting you? Or</div>
<div class="line">perhaps you are bearing the betrayal better than I am,</div>
<div class="line">the dark regime we’ve invented, the great American</div>
<div class="line">miscarriage, the mockery this country makes of itself,</div>
<div class="line">the arc bending away from justice. Maybe you have a friend</div>
<div class="line">or sister to help you shoulder the burden of your complicity.</div>
<div class="line">It is possible you are thriving in 2021, in which case</div>
<div class="line">please write me a poem—but if not, Angela Winston,</div>
<div class="line">if you’ll have me, I would like to write you a life raft—</div>
<div class="line">if not to save you, at least to buoy you until a better poet</div>
<div class="line">comes along. I inflate the raft with my breath, and it sounds</div>
<div class="line">like this: (<span style="font-style: italic;">hff</span>) No matter who you are, your very life</div>
<div class="line">is rebellion, your love is a fist in the air. (<span style="font-style: italic;">hff</span>) Your name</div>
<div class="line">matters. It is right here in the White Pages, surrounded</div>
<div class="line">by relatives and potential accomplices. (<span style="font-style: italic;">hff</span>) You can begin</div>
<div class="line">today, Angela, the work you could not bring yourself to do</div>
<div class="line">yesterday. You have not missed your chance to pluck</div>
<div class="line">the shrapnel from your heart; there is time yet to (<span style="font-style: italic;">hff</span>) carry</div>
<div class="line">the sign, or throw the brick, or fashion the song</div>
<div class="line">from your fear, your hurt, your fury. And finally (<span style="font-style: italic;">hff)</span>, a secret</div>
<div class="line">about this raft: that it is built for two. It carries me</div>
<div class="line">as much as it carries you.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/ReidRaft.mp3"></audio></figure>

The Fun

Baghdad, Mon Amour

The Raft

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