2 Poems by Akiva Savett

Akiva J. Savett has been published in The Eunoia Review, The Washington Post, Etcetera, and Caesura. He teaches Advanced Placement Literature in Potomac, Maryland. He holds an MA in Literature from University of Delaware and lives in suburban Maryland with his wife and two children.

Seek

A blanket bump on her brother’s bed,
she giggles herself away
in the lingering thrill-tight of almost found.

Stupid on her joy,
I check behind the shower curtain,
under the sink,

in the dictionary under “pelican”
and “sapphire,”
she’s tickled by the ingenuity
of being lost.

I hide beneath my bed,
an old record player wheezing.
A 45 of The Spinners’
“Rubberband Man” isn’t spinning:

guaranteed to blow your mind.
Lord help him get away.

When it’s my turn,
I follow her grooves
in the carpet,
play the song she’s run.
—

With Mastodon You At Reluctant Concert

They stomp to jarring scores,
garage our dance bones.
You look at me between
songs to see if I am carried
away entirely, or piece by please
god don’t let me realize I’m naked
in blue and cave drumming.

I catch your grip go lank
melting into the thrum–
into the raucous tide
we paddle out
to catch particular wave particles,
become fluent in wigwam,
mash our golden maize;
we may sing yet.

Author: Mr. Phillipe

Phillipe Martin Chatelain / @uptownvoice / Phillipe is the Managing Editor of In Parentheses. He is a poet from New York City with a Masters Degree in Poetry from The New School. He writes as someone in the tradition of the urban troubadour or the flaneur–wandering, taking notes. He believes that poetry of our generation has taken on a much more digital definition. Furthermore, it is important for New Modernist writers like those exhibited in In Parentheses Literary Magazine to assume the forms of media available in order to carry on the history of Sublime Art. His series taking shots alone was self-published in 2012-2015. The self-published collection FACETS (2019) is now available. View all posts by Mr. Phillipe