CanLit Poets
Breakthrough
by Eva Tihanyi
You once thought of him as a fawn
but he turned satyr;
horns rose from his head
and he gouged your heart with them,
bucked you to the wall
Now, in his absence,
you fill your heart
with a violent fire cacophony,
vow to give it form
It will be a tryst
between you and the words,
the final love affair;
you will press yourself into paper,
your blood will be the watermark
The night stares at your hand
through the window, moves closer,
a black fox
You have gathered yourself
together for this;
you have been waiting, building
all your life this complex sepulchre,
this hymn for your heart's
last
mad-muscle dancing;
and as the blood
ascends to its flowering,
you throw your fist into the page
which sings at last as you will it:
like a heavy bludgeon thunder
echoing in frozen snow
More poems by Eva Tihanyi:
"Breakthrough" originally appeared in Canadian Literature #100: 25th Anniversary Issue (Spring 1984)
MLA: Tihanyi, Eva. CanLit Poets: "Breakthrough" by Eva Tihanyi. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 17 Mar. 2009. Web. 8 Sept. 2010.
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