Love Life: Poems
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Love is that sobering and paradoxical state of being in which one’s own happiness depends upon the welfare of another. The author’s third volume of poetry examines love in its many guises: familial, romantic, erotic, and Platonic.
Mario Milosevic
Mario Milosevic was born in a refugee camp in Italy, grew up in Canada, and holds a degree in philosophy and mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, fellow writer Kim Antieau. His poems, stories, and novels have appeared in many venues, both print and online.
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Love Life - Mario Milosevic
Preliminary
Observations
Miners
My father went underground
everyday and clawed
at the guts of the Earth,
sending up chunks of rock
like a rescuer retrieving
body parts after a disaster.
My mother worked hard
finding ways to not think
about what fate
might befall him under
all those tons of ore.
He would sometimes return home
with black smudges on his
cheek or forehead, grimy
kisses of ancient rock.
My mother would reach up
and brush them away
and he’d smile. See,
he would say, I always
come back to you.
Resisting the Patriarchy
It’s nineteen seventy.
I’m twelve.
My mother and I take a train
across Canada to visit her
side of the family for the
first time since I was born.
The significance of this fact
escapes me at the time.
Our trip reprises our life
when I was a baby, when
for two years it was just
my mother and me.
Us against the world.
We arrive in Edmonton.
I meet uncles and aunts
and cousins I did not know
existed. I’m too young to
understand their reactions
to me. Too young to see how
some of them pull away,
leave the room, look over
my head. Too young to
understand that they know
I’m the son of an independent
woman who chose her own
way and left her home in the
old country to live her life
on her terms. Too young to
understand, but not too
young to see