A poem I wrote earlier this year has been posted at the Libre Lit website. Thanks to Mary B for accepting my work for publication and for posting it on Libre. You can click here to read "The Same Illness."
https://www.librelit.com/themagazine/the-same-illness
I have a poem appearing today in the summer issue of disquieting muses quarterly, aka DMQ Review. You can read my poem and the other prose poems appearing in the issue by clicking on this link:
https://www.dmqreview.com/sum23toc
The poem is called "They Were Monarchs." I wrote it a few years ago. I am grateful to the editors at DMQ Review for giving a voice to my work.
You wanted to get the old band back together.
But we didn’t even have a band.
All we did was
sit around and drink
and talk
and smoke.
We played music
but it was music other people recorded
onto compact discs
and then sold to us.
Yeah, we’d go to venues.
There were crowds,
not drawn by us.
And there’d be bands there,
but not our band.
None of us wrote any songs.
None of us sang.
We didn’t even have any instruments...
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