SUDDEN BUT NOT FOREVER A broken love is like a used band-aid Crumpled and tossed aside To lie On hardened ground, cold and bare and brown, Ignored but not forgotten By lovers Who stuck the soft strip on a heart, a balm To pad the empty stabs of Loveless life. The strip sticks tight and of the lover becomes A part. But time will rip The love, And splitting the lovers in two, will leave behind A sting, but not for long. I know for I Have loved. Adria Fowler ERIDANUS We lay in the grass and felt the night's warm breath And watched the hills turn underneath the sky And tear the moon in pieces that rippled out and made A dotted picture in the sky, calm as death. The moon would soon be gone, bloated with amber, And would sink with heavy sighs into the ground like A heavy tear, sliding off oil, White-flecked now, reflected in the earth In rippling waves on tops of poplars...remember? But somehow all the phantoms of advice Stole in, and spoiled the enjoyment of the night. They had said the only way to learn was in the maze Of books and classes, day after dissecting day. The heavy, sinking moon chaffs against The roses' breath, in a crushed and quiet polonaise. Robert J. Morris 11