Even though Radomir Luza is a huge, wild presence at the microphone, his poems are often delicate and betray his gentleness and even vulnerability. Radomir is not a poet concerned with rhyme or meter; he is blissfully unworried about form, at least in a conscious way. His poems, rather, are unadulterated ejaculations of feeling: uncooked, intense, mundane, confessional, surreal, untutored, uninhibited and tender. There are starkly prosy moments in his work, followed by startlingly beautiful thoughts and images. If you want swans and the moon, read Yeats. If you want to learn about the wifebeater shirt and the mental hospital and the night with soft porn, spend a little time in Radomir’s orbit.
seeing
my father in the bathroom when he is not there
my father usually lasted a good twenty minutes in the bathroom
he walked in like a busy bear in a hurry but took his time like a bee in a bonnet
when he left the stench was all father and it lasted to Armageddon and beyond
last night I thought I saw my father in the bathroom again in all his glory and sadness his
clenched teach and his whispering hands I started to talk to him from my bedroom but
there was no answer I went out into the hallway and realized that I was talking to glued air
my father had been dead for over four months
I fell on the ground and laughed because everything in me told me to cry
my father usually lasted a good twenty minutes in the bathroom
he walked in like a busy bear in a hurry but took his time like a bee in a bonnet
when he left the stench was all father and it lasted to Armageddon and beyond
last night I thought I saw my father in the bathroom again in all his glory and sadness his
clenched teach and his whispering hands I started to talk to him from my bedroom but
there was no answer I went out into the hallway and realized that I was talking to glued air
my father had been dead for over four months
I fell on the ground and laughed because everything in me told me to cry
© 2014
Radomir Luza and Sharon Rizk
Radomir Luza and Sharon Rizk were the Featured Poets who read their poetry at the May 2014 Second Sunday Poetry Series
Radomir Luza and Sharon Rizk were the Featured Poets who read their poetry at the May 2014 Second Sunday Poetry Series