Lawrence Bridge’s “The Concert” concisely examines a breakdown of interconnectedness in an almost post-apocalyptic way. In “The Concert” absence is a tangible thing, made all the more stark with the poet’s expertise in metaphor and imagery. “’The Concert’ is a quiet elegy, expressing the loss of presence and connection, where the self is forgotten amid everyday emptiness,” Lawrence imparted to The Dewdrop.
The Concert
Try sitting in air
without a chair
or shopping for groceries
without a bag.
If I didn’t speak
I’d leave with people
across the field, a waste
of cups and paper
plates and never
know that once
I was music.
Lawrence Bridges
Lawrence Bridges’ poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). You can find him on IG: @larrybridges
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