Love Locks Not
Over the Seine, lovers clasp locks and throw the keys from bridges into the river.
love locks
forever
rusted
At Jones Beach, Field 9, rather than return them, you hang a lover’s keys on the fence when you
break up.
his spare key retired his false heart
Carla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in “The Practicing Poet” and her collections “Signs of Marriage,” “Mother, One More Thing,” and “Intimacy with the Wind.” Learn more at https://carlapoet.com, or on all social media @cb99videos. Recent/upcoming curations: Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Contemporary Haibun Online, Eunoia Review, Modern Haiku, New Verse Review, New-Verse News, North Dakota Quarterly, One Art, Past Ten, Rattle Magazine, Sheila-Na-Gig online, Sense and Sensibility, Silver Birch, Spank the Carp, and The MacGuffin, and Verse-Virtual Online. Carla Schwartz received the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize.
Carla Schwartz lives half the time in the greater Boston area, and half the time on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee. Schwartz is passionate about cycling, Nordic skiing, hiking, fresh water long distance swimming, paddle-boarding, pedal kayaking, reading, and gardening.
