Chris Cortese - Writings

1. Bottles
2. Questions
3. Difference
4. Talking to Colorful People
5. Last Breath
6. Traffic
7. Canadian Whiskey
8. Radar Detector
9. Breaking Squirrels
10. Concise Comment on the Educational Process
11. Tears
12. 21
13. Earth Girls
14. Bird
15. Party
16. Wet Inspiration
17. Safe Cooking
18. In Hiding
19. Blackout
20. Drinking
21. the Devil
22. Mexican Beauty
23. Spill
24. Driving in a hotel room in Chicago
25. Mara
26. Any Change
27. Indecision
28. What to call a poem about the loss of a friend?
29. Confrontation
30. Time Management
31. Conclusion
32. Desert Daydream
33. Near Death

Mara

her face would not have held
the secrets of the world
without the eyes
she was a waitress and a
goddess.

I remember talking to Scotty.
I said you work with a woman.
I said her eyes are like
(a bunch of colorful and romantic
adjectives).
I said they're like
(creative, poetic
metaphors).
he said, "That must be Mara".
tell her I love her,
I said.

things are getting better,
to where I can compliment someone
without feeling like I've cut myself.