Featured Poems SS 2019
Last night walking out of our workshop in the garage
The harvest moon hung over the pine trees with the same
Exaggeration of a child’s drawing of it.
I told him his infidelity had lost its initial sting
But failing to kiss me goodnight was like a kick
In the heart with work boots on.
Tell me what you’d say, I’d asked, if you were trying
To convince someone I was worth taking home.
Shut up, is all he said, and I didn’t have a choice
with my mouth all covered up with his.
--first published by ‘Extract(s)’
Carol began her writing career publishing poetry on greeting cards, world-wide, for Blue Mountain Arts., Inc. She was one of three featured poets in ‘Ancient Paths’, issue 16, where one of my ten works was nominated for a Pushcart Award. Carol has since published in ‘The Avocet’, ‘Burningword’, ‘Bacopa Literary Review’, ‘Artifact Nouveau’, ‘Harbinger Asylum’, ‘Madras Mag’, ‘New Plains Review’, among others. Carol and her husband are semi-retired on a small inland lake in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.