Terri L. French
my third glass of wine
the mosquito
comes back for seconds
waiting room—
a fly climbs the stairs
on an Escher print
labeled a liberal
but I’m all right
with that
bridge game
every hand
liver-spotted
cyber bullying
hashtags on
the fat girl’s arms
gas bubble
I write “first smile”
in the baby book
Now This: Contemporary Poems of Beginning, Renewals, and Firsts
edited by Robert Epstein, Wasteland Press, 2013.
in the bureau drawer
an old roll of film —
what could have developed
caucus night
bad weather scrolling
across the screen
bipolar disorder —
rainbows floating
on oil slicks
another AARP invite
in the mail —
this is getting old
the soldier’s boy
aims his magnifying glass
one by one
melting army men