NEW! "Whether the escalator is moving up or down, it can still tear us apart", a new poem by me, inside the HOT MESS issue of Stirring

"One month you Instagram me;
the next month I'm deleted and replaced
with instant coffee.
Maybe we have different taste buds
and different ideas
about amusement park rides.
 
I used to enjoy the quick release
of a roller coaster plunging down fast
and the escalating screams.
My shut eyes were filled with haunted house
strobe lights of terrified delight.
Now it feels more like a downward spiral
leading closer to death,"

from my poem "Whether the escalator is moving up or down, it can still tear us apart", which appears in the new July HOT MESS issue of Stirring.

read more HERE - https://www.stirringlit.com/new-page-2

Happy October! The NEW Anniversary Issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection has arrived and includes two of my "Not a Baby Doll" poems!

"Maybe those baby birds answered a question
in a way that the wind didn't like
and then received a short response,
a simple "Never mind",
before they were flung
out of their nest
and ignored

and replaced
with an unmoving doll."

from one of my two "Not a Baby Doll' poems within the new October issue of Stirring

partake of more HERE - http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/

A New Collaborative Poem is Stirring!

"I knew that I 
was in a drought
with cast iron replacing the thighs
with no more liquid dripping out."

from "Clots Push Over the Edge", a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, appearing within the new December issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection

partake of more here - http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/cookj.htm