The ascension of newer stories
That glassy-eyed spire
was pinpricking the sky
all day. Here, a window,
and there, a windowless
form, defying the horizon’s
function. For years the eye
caught only the eyesore
and a glare. There are too
many stories to climb. This
structure fools itself, is not
a mountain. No other building
dared to stand so bright
blue with cloud white squares
in abstract. Not here, on this
choppy span of the Ohio.
Give us this
Much
gratitude
to the gape
of windows &
the gasp of spring.
Fresh berries smile back
while we dine on their aroma.
Thanks to warm streams of water
drowning dishes & the sudsy applause
of bubbles that bob like baubles in slow slosh;
diaphanous life jackets in the tumult of these after-
noon sea voyages. Let’s lovingly acknowledge waves
of nausea and pangs of day as we grip life’s hip
and lean into it as though it was our grand-
mother. And we sail on the air of anxiety
in our body’s attempts to not be a body.
Nobody knows how long we float
before we are adrift.
where am i
in this gloaming of foam-
white underbellies
below grey clouds? i sit
assuming their silver
will ring umpteen
hallelujahs as the sun
slips its yolk out of over-
cast shell. blue whispers
to dusk, hums cicada
& my legs have tiny
imprints from concrete.
Finding a cure for small talk
A petri dish
of weather clichés
with no marked
response. Test
tubes filled
with answers
to “What do you do
for a living?”
Litmus paper
I’ve used to draw
my results: LEAVE
ME ALONE. I can
share this finding
with former class-
mates in public
when they approach.
Please just spin this
centrifuge, separate
me from political
discussions every-
where: waiting
rooms, drive-
thrus, pick-up
lines.
K Weber is an Ohio writer with 11 self-published, online books of poetry. K writes independently and collaboratively, having created poems with 800+ words donated by more than 300 people since 2018. K has poems featured in publications such as Stone Circle Review, Writer’s Digest, and Exacting Clam. Much of K’s work (free in PDF and some in audiobook format) and her publishing credits are accessible through her website: kweberandherwords.com
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