Awaiting Your Call (+1)

Can you speak to the masses

will your words cross the line

From youngest to oldest

will listeners opine

How many octaves

can sing out your tune

Is it seasonal only

or July until June

Is time to speak kindly

of what you espouse

Or pile like kindling

as scraps from a house

The listeners are out there

awaiting your call

Their ears to the ground

—will you bend to enthrall

(The New Room: June, 2022)

Limbo's Child

My girlfriend has a girlfriend

as pigeons flee the roost

Pronouns crying God knows what

knots are coming loose

I was my girlfriend’s boyfriend

when lines unblurred defined

My love abeyant, Limbo’s child

—left here misaligned 

(Villanova University: June, 2022)