Praise to Letting Go
Aimee Penna
the house
the old flatware
the punchbowl
all of the things that said
stay, take root
even keep kosher, if
you'd like. instead
the two of us
carrying two cats
in their meshed
duffel carriers
GPS our new
religion, dedicating
the rest of our lives
to impermanence
which really
we always had done
without knowing.
how the pipes
had begun
to corrode anyway,
a beautiful
blotched metal
pockmarking
with condensation
like beads of sweat
on an indifferent
upper lip
Aimee Penna’s poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Whiskey Island, among others. She holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and has been an editorial assistant at The American Poetry Review. She recently moved to San Antonio with her husband and two kooky cats.
