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Merike Lugus has written poetry all her life. Since her primary focus was always her painting, she has not been very active in the past in submitting her work to literary magazines or publishers. Four poems, however, were published in the November 1988 issue of Poetry Toronto, of which this is one:
you came to me and said you might have some love to give and then you looked at me as if I were a sandbox and you thought perhaps it was time to put childish things away I saw a young man poised like a prince you are not free I said noticing paper-doll perforations all around you only one foot loosened from the page and that resolutely set on the path of your destruction I could have lifted you off the page you said you loved me but there was nothing questioning in your touch- as if your life were spoken for when in my skin you smelled the ocean's hunger you were afraid that you had played at passion as you would play at madness then kept away and hoped that I'd remain pure vessel for what could be priceless in another play
....................................................................Copyright (c) 1988 Merike Lugus
First published in Poetry Toronto (Nov/88)
Last updated August 15, 1996
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