"This poet is not afraid to let it all hang out. Geyer takes language and shakes it at you, her images are solid and sensual. Not a bad one in the bunch."
Copies of What Remains are still available from Argonne House Press, Amazon, and this web site. The publication is 36-pages, saddle-stapled with a glossy cover, and features 22 poems.
Sample poems from What Remains:
CARAVAGGIO'S MEDUSA
If it wasn't for the snakes
I think I could have loved her--
strong, resourceful. She's never
be the one to show up early
to the party, looking overdressed
and uncomfortable in the corner,
waiting to speak
only when spoken to.
I think I could have loved
the way she tamed those snakes
to curl in ringlets
framing her bronze-scaled face--
the way she would never trouble me
with stories of and baggage from
past lovers, failed affairs,
never ask But for how much longer?
I think I could have loved her
even if she set my heart to stone.
After all, she wouldn't be the first.
But most of all, I think
I could have loved her for the way
she refused to look me in the eye.
TAORMINA AT NIGHT
Lit houses
cascade
down into the sea
like stars
tumbling from the sky
to take
a midnight swim
in the Straits of Messina.
