LURE

poetry Blaise Kielar

There is no love
there is only love
brain as cleaver
slices
into scientific categories
sensations
that infiltrate
so deep
I do not even sniff them
until
new allurements
rule my world.
Denial is futile –
there is only love.

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Blaise Kielar received Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for an excerpt from his memoir in progress, "Be Heard: The Quiet Kid Who Started the World’s Loudest Violin Shop." He opened Chapel Hill’s first violin shop in 1978 and retired from a music retail career by transitioning Electric Violin Shop into the first worker-owned co-op music store in the United States. He plays jazz violin and clarinet in several bands and leads the Bulltown Strutters, Durham’s community New Orleans brass band.