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like a needle on an ancient phonograph
stuttering in an endless groove i hiccup my way around a narrow band of pettifoggery crunching ugly words like so much stale bread then swallowing a gutbucket of bitterness my mind striated by indigestible spicules scraping the thin membrane of sanity bunyan's slough of despond is a riotous carnival of mirth by comparison guilty of no crime other than being who i am somehow condemns me even knowing i’d plummet into the sea i’d gladly wear the wings of icarus to claim a slice of glorious silent freedom RC deWinter’s poetry is widely anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2/2017), easing the edges: a collection of everyday miracles, (Patrick Heath Public Library of Boerne, 11/2021) The Connecticut Shakespeare Festival Anthology (River Bend Bookshop Press, 12/2021), in print: 2River, Event, Gargoyle Magazine, the minnesota review, Night Picnic Journal, Plainsongs, Prairie Schooner, Southword, The Ogham Stone, Twelve Mile Review, York Literary Review among many others and appears in numerous online literary journals. Comments are closed.
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