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Cricket Wish Me Luck

C Ra McGuirt

i’m sorry
that you’re asleep,
because i want you.

i’m glad
that you’re asleep,
so i can write

about the ways
that i want you.

i want you
as you were tonight

in your nightgown
with your hair down

Holy Mother Russia
a girl again

frightened by a cricket
in the bathroom

you had never seen a cricket in the light,

just as you hadn’t
seen fireflies
in the dark

before we walked the park
as summer waned.

now spring has come,
and I explained

that crickets on the hearth
are lucky here.

you chose to believe me,
just as i choose to believe

that it’s bad luck for me to leave
my car keys on the table,
or whistle in the house

because it’s bad luck
where you come from.

i love you as you lie asleep
in ways i still don’t understand.

 

The poem originally appeared in the v4 September 1993 (“Construction time Again”) issue of cc&d magazine.

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