Rock 'Em Out

David Rivard
Forehead

I love you
I know as much as anything
for your courage
so companionably invisible
as it is
that it passes mostly
as simple
good sense. I don't mean you're
practical at all--god forbid--
only persistent
as far as dying brothers & cold calls
are concerned--not violent,
not weak, but like a lantern afloat on a wave
open if necessary
to sinking your light
offshore. Onshore
I am as you would know
strongly sometimes
impatient & inside a swarm of loud thoughts
self-absorbed & locked-up.
If you were to die
who would remove me
from those thoughts?
When you lean your forehead
against mine
what you hear inside there
are all those
sounds likely, vibrations
like windowpanes rattled by headland squalls
or bullet trains
late forever & loaded down
with passengers green
as hoodie-wearing witches.
I lean my forehead against
your forehead
gently knowing both
will shortly vanish.
"First of all," says Virgil, "find
a protected place
for the bees
to make their
honey, a place that's
safe from wind."

David Rivard's books include Sugartown (Graywolf, 2006), Bewitched Playground (Graywolf, 2000), Wise Poison (Graywolf, 1996), and Torque (Pitt, 1988). In Fall 2008he will begin teaching in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire.

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Forehead by David Rivard, is directly related to love and the feelings from one person to another. This peom explains how two different people are coming together as one through love, and their actions prove their feelings for each other. From beginning the peom with the line, "I love you", it creates an automatic focus for the reader realizing that the peom discusses the emotional feelings between two lovers. I chose the song "Always Forever" by Donna Lewis to relate to this peom because the song discusses love and the attractions between the two individuals. In this peom, the author has a unique way of expressioning the connotations of love and the actions of two people who are in love which are similar in Lewis's song.