Calculating The Cost
I want to say to the student stressing about the next math test, worrying her score with never reflect her best, the trauma adding up, she fears the rest, that stupid tests are not the real math. It's just the system of keeping account, creating a product that can have skill enough to add up spending amounts. Math is a bee's hexagon honeycomb, the minutes since you last saw your love the distance the sun's hopes to roam, the fractal divisions of the trees above, the sum of all our warming actions, the urgent need of healing subtractions. Cape Lookout We look but don't see any whales. Instead we see the Pacific as an upturned offering bowl from the heavens. Comets current white lines that pass close to the yellow start of infinity. Dark matter pools in random places, the invisible energy of tug and tear. Pelicans shoot through the net of blue, constellations of action and hunger. Islands eject from the coast like still comets, the sandy tail trailing south. Tree sparrows star the cliff top with their pointed wings. We look but don't see any whales. Cheated Outside a Safeway, Starbucks in hand wondering if there exists places devoid of the poetic. Car park tarmac. Gloomy January evening. Almost evidence only there is an irregular puddle of water into which falls tampering rain drops as if it was its own private cloud. Published in June 2022 by Shot Glass Journal
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Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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