periodically I seek
you out online
someone I don’t want
to know about
hope to find you-
tubes or real
estate listings
hope you’re not (un-
happy (un-
alive
just barely
there in google
search or face-
book frenzy (un-
alone with favorite
books, wings
tethered, lightly soiled
wearing emptiness
in black or sleeve-
lessly
years weathered
slowly without a face-
lift or spiritectomy
soul intact if not (un-
suffering
shoes worn but still
not quite (un-
comfortable
periodically I seek
to commute
the sentence
-done)
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 20, Issue 2.
James K. Zimmerman is an award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize nominee. His work appears or is forthcoming in Miramar, Pleiades, Chautauqua, American Life in Poetry, The Evansville Review, and Nimrod, among others. He is author of “Little Miracles” (Passager, 2015) and “Family Cookout” (Comstock, 2016), winner of the Jessie Bryce Niles Prize.
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