Anxiety Poem
In The Midst
There’s been an accident
at the intersection
near my parents
and they are overdue.
Their neighbour answers
the phone – a confused stranger
after her stroke –
and speaks of flashing red lights.
Their friend with cancer is hysterical
on the phone
with no one in the house
and no answers.
As I pick up my car
keys to search,
the phone rings:
It is my child’s school; there’s been an accident.
Your Place in My Heart
I woke in the night
and thought of you.
No bleeding,
just this annoying scab,
itchy, tender.
I keep telling myself
I’ve cauterized
your place in my heart.
Advice for Teachers of Writing
As a young teacher
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Writing and Reading (Old Tech)
You are reading
this,
far away
from the time and place
where/when synapses
fired
their ballet
and I thought
a feeling
a rhythm
holding these words –
first sliding in black
ink
on a page,
waiting
for synapses
and time
and fingers
taping
green life
through electric connections to a screen
that holds
and releases
thoughts, words
reconstituted
regained
and printing up,
through black tape,
in a rhythm
of line and page
these words
which bend
and fold –
and, enveloped, travel
to be studied,
held,
approved.
A bored stranger submits
these words,
through the finger ballet, to the machine that prints
these words
for you
to read
now.
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Bullies
Bullies are blind to
differences;
they see the tenderhearted
as targets, used
to relieve their sense of angry fear,
to release their fearful anger –
used as their addictive catharsis.
Bullies are blind,
in their spewing of bile,
to the bruises they inflict,
constantly telling themselves stories
to create and increase excuses
for stoking their blind angers.
Bullies are blind to
how they are led;
they swallow concocted poisons
about others they fear would replace them,
about others they hope to destroy –
attacking these targeted others.
Bullies are blinded and fearful.
